Audi reveals Nazi past

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-car-maker-audi-reveals-nazi-past/

3,700 concentration camp inmates were forced to work for auto company in deal brokered with SS. Tens of thousands of other laborers were made to work, and thousands died.

German car giant Audi’s predecessor company used slave laborers from concentration camps during World War II on a massive scale, a new report has found.

An historical investigation commissioned by the company — the last German auto company to do so, preceded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW — found that when Audi was operating under the name Auto Union, it struck a deal with the SS, by which more than 3,700 inmates from Nazi concentration camps were put to work for the company.
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Gilligan

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I would be more surprised to learn of any German companies that were engaged in any kind of war production that did not use slave or forced labor...?
 
Larry Gude

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Gilligan said:
I would be more surprised to learn of any German companies that were engaged in any kind of war production that did not use slave or forced labor...?
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That.

It's like "The Jefferson's and Washington's used to own slaves!!!!"

Yeah? No ####???
 
GURPS

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Political Posturing .....

it was War, people in control did what they needed to do, to keep production
- did it suck, yep sure thing

so did the bombing of Dresden ...
it was WAR, it was bloody Ugly Business, it was 70 yrs ago, lets move on ....

like the whole IBM thing ....

or all the hand ringing over Bush and Nazi's






and Larry, Jefferson and Washington are not around to atone for their sins ....
 
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Gilligan

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I just finished a book that covered the life of Franz Zigler, one of Germany's most experienced pilots and training instructors. He was an Me-262 jet pilot and instructor too...and it was amusing to note how little trust he and other pilots put in the jet engines. One factor in that mistrust was the occurrence of intentional defects...sabotage...the engine factory using forced labor, of course.
 
GURPS

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Gilligan said:
I just finished a book that covered the life of Franz Zigler, one of Germany's most experienced pilots and training instructors. He was an Me-262 jet pilot and instructor too...and it was amusing to note how little trust he and other pilots put in the jet engines. One factor in that mistrust was the occurrence of intentional defects...sabotage...the engine factory using forced labor, of course.
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the Jumo 400's were finicky beasts .... requiring a rebuild at 400 hours
 
Gilligan

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GURPS said:
24 hrs ... that is maybe 2 flights and some ground time
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Flights in those planes were quite brief...and they spent very little time running them on the ground. Their deployment was dispersed all over the country and they would scramble to meet bomber formations that were practically on top of them by the time they were airborne, so the distances traveled were not great.

A new airplane would be capable of quite a few 1 to 2-hour missions, accordingly.
 
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