Posted on 06/07/2010 4:48:20 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Yes, good points. The international community recognized the Dutch government-in-exile, and the Germans didn’t bother to create a puppet Dutch government. Instead, Holland was simply an occupied territory without it’s own domestic government. As such, if the Germans had bothered to try to get an “agreement” to turn over the colonies, they would have found there was nobody home.
Even if a facade of an “agreement” had been entered, the only way the Germans could have enforced it was to have won the war.
The family changed its name to Windsor, either during or before WWI so it wouldn’t sound German. Ditto Lord Mountbatten [Battenberg].
It is sometimes alleged that IBM was too cozy, even complicit with Hitler's Nazis, supplying them with machines later used in keeping track of Jews and other Nazi enemies.
This reports suggest the more accurate description might be that IBM was "duped" by Hitler.
Who, after all, could refuse a Merit Cross in recognition of his efforts for world peace and trade -- especially when Hitler himself declared to Watson in 1937, "there must be no more wars" ?
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