Working for the enemy : Ford, General Motors, and forced labor in Germany during the Second World War /

General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, now the headquarters of European Ford. In this book, historians tell the astonishing story o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Billstein, Reinhold, 1949- (Editor ), Fings, Karola, 1962- (Editor ), Kugler, Anita (Editor ), Levis, Nicholas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Temas:
Ford Motor Company > History.
General Motors Corporation > History.
Ford Motor Company.
General Motors Corporation.
1900-1999
Forced labor > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Automobile industry and trade > Military aspects > Germany > History > 20th century.
Travail forcé > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Travail obligatoire > Allemagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
Automobiles > Industrie et commerce > Aspect militaire > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Automobile industry and trade > Military aspects.
Forced labor.
Germany.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, now the headquarters of European Ford. In this book, historians tell the astonishing story of what happened at Opel and Ford Werke under the Third Reich, and of the aftermath today. Long before the Second World War, key American executives at Ford and General Motors were eager to do business with Nazi Germany. Ford Werke and Opel became indispensable suppliers to the German armed forces,
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 309 pages), 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782387855
1782387854
Acceso:Legal Deposit;

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