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If in fact Standard Oil did not do everything they could to stop the Nazis from using their facilities and products then they committed the most serious of treasons.

What could they have done, precisely?

Ordered their Swiss subsidiary to blow the place up? Would their Swiss subsidiary have been able to do so? Would they have acted, at all -- given that they were governed by Swiss law? And their Romanian employees were subject to the German military.

The simple fact of the matter is that Standard Oil headquarters may have been rendered powerless by events. Any orders they might've issued to their Swiss subsidiary weren't necessarily going to be followed.

[Chainmail]

There was a short moment before the Nazis seized physical control of those facilities where significant obstructions could have taken place and there were steps Standard could have taken to remove their expertise and financial support from their subsidiaries.

When it was too late they, could have divested and removed themselves - but hanging in there and continuing the business connections was treasonous.