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Bezig met laden... General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmakerdoor Henry Ashby Turner
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This book, the first ever based on unrestricted access to General Motors’ internal records, documents the giant American corporation’s dealings with the Third Reich. GM purchased Opel, Europe’s largest automaker, in the 1920s and continued to hold it through the Second World War. Historian Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., uncovers the fascinating story of how the American carmaker conducted business in Germany under the Nazi regime and explores larger issues concerning the relations between international corporations and the Third Reich. The book presents new and detailed information about General Motors’ interactions with Hitler and other Nazi officials, including the carmaker’s attempt to capture the Volkswagen project. It also reveals how American GM executives thwarted a sustained Nazi effort to gain control of Opel. The author concludes with an assessment of the extent of the company’s implication, through Opel, in the Nazi war effort and in the exploitation of forced labor. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As for the notion that GM should have simply divested itself of its troublesome subsidiary, Turner finds this notion to be unrealistic. Opel was too profitable to be disposed of at a time when German-American relations were nominally friendly. Currency controls existing in Germany meant that there were virtually no options for a sale that would have been worthwhile for GM. Finally, the upper management of GM of the period cultivated an apolitical attitude towards the foreign governments it had to deal with as a matter of policy, until the culmination point of war. Sometimes you really do have no good options. ( )