IBM and the Holocaust

Coyote Ugly said:
Ford, Opel, Bayer were in Germany too during WW2.

Ford/Opel was making trucks for the Wehrmacht in Germany.
Henry Ford told the US Congress that if any of his Germany Factories got bombed
that he would stop making vehicles for the US Forces.
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From 1929 to 2017, Opel was owned by General Motors, not Ford.
 
grauhanen said:
Henry Ford was only one prominent anti-Semite in the United States. Anti-Semitism held plenty of sway in not only the United States but also in Canada. Both countries had a very regrettable stance on the St. Louis, for example, and this was emblematic of common views at that time. For more details, see for example Irving Abella and Harold Troper, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933 - 1948.
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Very true. This “WW2 was fought to save the Jews” and “the US civil war was fought to free the slaves” story is a Hollywood fabrication and is pure bunk.

The Jews were at best begrudgingly tolerated in most western countries, and I doubt many political and business leaders really gave a crap about what was happening to them in Nazi Germany.
 
bdft said:
Never forget that Prime Minister Mackenzie King returned from Germany in 1936(?) saying that he was glad this fellow Hitler had solved the "Jewish problem". Liberals were anti-Semites first and foremost.
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I think it was a product of the times...good riddance to it too. My father was a gentle god fearing man, but I can recall him denigrating 'Jews' which was out of character for him. Sorta like the definition of Rape changed in my lifetime, we evolve...hopefully for the better.
 
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