10 Companies That Did Business With Nazis
10. Ford
Hitler was a fan of Henry Ford, so much so that there was a portrait of Ford hanging above his desk. Hitler even awarded Ford with the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest Nazi honor. The Ford Motor Company’s German plants used slave labor to build their products, and even helped the Nazi war effort by building products for them. When President Roosevelt went to the Ford Motor Company in the United States and asked for assistance in producing products to help with the war, Ford declined. The Ford Motor Company ended up making around $60,000 a year just from their German counterpart from 1940-1943. Henry Ford himself was a widely known anti-semite, so it doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Over the years Ford’s lawyers have tried to distance themselves from the actions of their German branch, but there are too many links holding them together.
