IBM and Nazi Germany

[SnakeEyes]

I was reading an article about IBM that mentioned how the company's president met with Hitler in the late 1930's.  That intrigued me because I had never heard about such a thing and so I read more articles relating to this.... just for the sake of simplicity, here's the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Has anyone else heard this?  Apparently the company doesn't deny that this happened and they say they have "no record" of it because a lot of documents were destroyed in WWII. 

[Adami]

Not too shocking, America as a whole didn't seem to care about the holocaust at all until 1941, and it's arguable that they still didn't really care past that.

[the Catfishman]

I thought this was pretty well known, it's the same story for almost all major companies in Germany and a lot of big multinationals in Europe.

[rumborak]

And this isn't something just confined to WWII. IKEA just got in the news for having used political prisoners in East Germany in the 70s to manufacture parts.

rumborak

[lordxizor]

I used to work for a company that gots its start in Nazi Germany making the gas that killed the Jews.

[eric42434224]

I used to work for a company that gots its start in Nazi Germany making the gas that killed the Jews.

Zyklon B?
Wasnt there some skinhead band named zyklon b?

[rumborak]

Was that Degussa, or IG Farben?

In an interesting twist of history, the brother of Germany's arguably most popular federal president worked on Zyklon B back in the day.

rumborak

[SnakeEyes]

Crazy stuff in this thread. 

[Rick]

Fanta is a Nazi drink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta

[black_biff_stadler]

Fanta is a Nazi drink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta

That is Nazi complete truth.

Goddamnit people are idiots!

[Progmetty]

I don't understand the significance of any of this but I can name at least 3 more products we still have today off the top of my head that was established in Germany between 1933 and 1945, let alone dozens of inventions and ideas which was embraced by the government and supported.
I find people like Wernher von Braun and others more interesting cause they had to live and work under two very different regimes in their lives and were celebrated in both.

Fanta is a Nazi drink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta

That is Nazi complete truth.

Goddamnit people are idiots!

I never heard of this! Found it on youtube. What's the point of the commercial though?
Girl in the first scene is incredibly hot.

[BlobVanDam]

I never heard of this! Found it on youtube. What's the point of the commercial though?
Girl in the first scene is incredibly hot.

Whoa, you weren't wrong about the chick.
I didn't get the point of the ad either. Maybe if it was set to Whitesnake - Spit it Out, it would have worked better.

This thread has been a fun history lesson.

[lordxizor]

Was that Degussa, or IG Farben?

Degussa