"'Strength through Joy'"
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 ...
What caught my attention!
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Robert S. McNamara was born on 9 June, 1916 in San Francisco, California. He graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1937 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Philosophy. McNamara went on to earn a Master's degree in 1939 from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. After a short teaching career at Harvard starting in 1940, McNamara joined the Army Air Force in 1943 and served until 1946. After leaving the military, he was hired by the Ford Motor Company to work with statistical control experts. In 1960, after rapid promotion through the company, he became its president.
On 21 January 1961, Robert McNamara's political career began when President John F. Kennedy appointed him as Secretary of Defense. McNamara made a more significant contribution to the area of nuclear weapons strategy than that of his predecessors. In 1962, he urged a "no cities" policy in nuclear retaliation strategy. McNamara argued that the "principal military objectives, in the event of a nuclear war stemming from a major attack on the Alliance, should be the destruction of the enemy's military forces, not of his civilian population."
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Reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278933/posts?page=109#109
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The day after Tricia Nixon's wedding the Washington Post and the New York Times began printing THE PENTAGON PAPERS. They were leaked by dissenting intelligence specialist Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg was on the staff of defence secretary Robert MacNamara when McNamara ordered a fact paper drawn up explaining step by step just how the U.S. managed to get in as big a mess as Vietnam. The papers revealed publically such damaging secrets as the U.S. had been fighting alongside the SouthVietnamese much earlier than the "Tonkin Gulf Incident" of 1965 while saying we were neutral. That the ship that was fired on in the incident (the U.S.S. Maddox) was ordered to violate Vietnamese waters and hopefully provoke a communist attack, and that the opinion of the Pentagon Joint Chiefs was that we knew we couldn't win as early as 1968, yet we stayed in anyway until 1973. McNamara said recently he himself never got around to reading the Pentagon Papers but had a copy in his garage.
So what became of McNamara?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1278933/posts?page=107#107
So not only was MacNamara HEAD of the World Bank, It is CO-CHAIRED by SOROS?????
(snip) 4 A May 22, 2001 meeting at World Bank co-chaired by James D. Wolfensohn and George Soros, brought together approximately 50 representatives from foundations, government agencies, and corporations that pledged contributions or matching funds (for a detailed description see "Investment with a High Return: Supporting Economics Education and Research in Transition Countries. (snip)
Just another reason why lawyers should be 'purged' from society.
I hope you can follow my logic on this one.
I hope you can follow my logic on this one.
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Amen. This is just money-grubbing. Everyone associated with it should be ashamed. Wishful thinking, I know.
I'd have more respect for the Holocaust industry if it paid any attention at all to the victims of communism, whose champions have a much, much smaller microphone.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood perpetuates the NAZI legacy with impunity.
"'Strength through Joy'"
Re: some where in my files
LOL! Same here...
Did you follow the McNamara connection?????
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Thanks for the ping!
Do you see the McNamara connection????
I think the book is "Trading with the Enemy"... I'm listening to the 'pipes right now. Don't scare me and say you are doing the same too!
What about the Gypsies, Slavs, and Christians killed in the Holocaust? They are overlooked.
My question is, 'what do you mean', from my naivette on the history.
However, I'm off to bed now. but please, post me a path to research :)
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