Posted on 11/14/2004 9:59:00 PM PST by Calpernia
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The Ford Motor Co. has mobilized dozens of historians, lawyers and researchers to fight a civil case brought by lawyers in Washington and New York who specialize in extracting large cash settlements from banks and insurance companies accused of defrauding Holocaust victims. Also, a book scheduled for publication next year will accuse General Motors Corp. of playing a key role in Hitler's invasions of Poland and the Soviet Union.
"General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland," said Bradford Snell, who has spent two decades researching a history of the world's largest automaker. "Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. GM was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM."
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But documents discovered in German and American archives show a much more complicated picture. In certain instances, American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.
After three years of national soul-searching, Switzerland's largest banks agreed last August to make a $1.25 billion settlement to Holocaust survivors, a step they had initially resisted. Far from dying down, however, the controversy over business dealings with the Nazis has given new impetus to long-standing investigations into issues such as looted art, unpaid insurance benefits and the use of forced labor at German factories.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Two older FR threads on ALBERT GORE JR, SR and ARMAND HAMMER
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391d17f80f34.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39952da15691.htm
Re: pay-off between ALGOE Senior, and Armand?
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38dd11844184.htm
Lots of info on Henry Ford and the Nazis at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
(scroll down to the middle of the page where the "Dearborn Independent" begins.
Man, it's like Europe's royal blood before WW1. Every family is interconnected.
What's next, the Norden Bombsight?
Is it, or is it not?
Soros stem-cell research as a family biz, eh?
Ford Charity Foundation!
McNamara came from Ford Motors and was Secretary of Defense during the Vietname war! He lost the war for us and then went to head up World Bank. You don't see the connection?????
I understand you were addressing California Patriot. I'm asking for my own knowledge. I'm learning history as we go. I've gotten a crash course since 2001. I didn't know many companies helped the nazis. This information is making a lot of what 'is' today more sense to me.
And good morning to you. :)
Mind if this is repeated and emphasized?
When you shake the commie bush, out falls Soros. He must be super human, to have touched so much evilness in one lifetime.
That is interesting! Thank you.
Wow Fedora! Thank you. I would be interested in reading this bio. Can you send me the title or author?
Never mind. I see the links at the bottom.
No wonder the schools took history out of the curriculum!
>>>Julius and Armand Hammer, who the Soviets assigned to attract US investors, persuaded Henry Ford to set up Ford operations in Russia starting in 1919, and by the late 30s Ford was doing multi-million-dollar business there (this is mentioned in Edward Jay Epstein's biography of Hammer).
Now I've recently been seeing that Gore had something to do with Hammer.
>>>The USA sent him money and arms like crazy.
This is about the rally held at MSG in NY in support of the Hitler-Stalin Pact
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MY first experience with the Communist conspiracy work for the "triumph of Soviet power in the United States," began simply enough. It was during the days of Hitler, and the come-on had been a mammoth rally for "peace and democracy." No right-thinking citizen could have any objection to that.
The build-up for the meeting had been terrific. Madison Square Garden in New York was packed to the rafters with a throng attracted there by a star-studded cast of Broadway and Hollywood celebrities, high churchmen, civic leaders, scientists, musicians, doctors, educators, authors, musicians and sports celebrities. Each was to get up and do his stuff and then speak a little piece about how Hitler was plan- rung to enslave the world.
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Thanks for the link!
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