[kj] Killing Joke and the U.S.

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

That is the Ford official story and indeed the story of most 
corporations that supplied material to the Nazis - "We couldn't help it; 
we were forced to." Volkswagen, Bunn, Siemens, Bayer -- all fored to 
work with the Nazis. It's nt something anyone wants to brag about; if 
you accept what their PR departments dsh out, of course they were all 
victims.

But lawsuits like this show a very different picture: 
http://www.bulldognews.net/issues_ford_suit.html

http://www.scripophily.net/foakr19.html

Ford Motor Company's official website will not exactly brag it supplied 
Nazi stuff. But American companies in Europe in the 1930s had no problem 
selling to whomever was willing to buy. There is a similar situation 
today in Saudi Arabia where Budget Rent-a-Car, for example, not wanting 
to rock the boat, honors that country's legal prohibition on female 
drivers, so if a woman wants to rent a car @ Budget in Saudi Arabia, she 
must also rent a male chaperone, which Budget uniquely also supplies for 
rent at their car rental places in that undemocratic theocratic monarchy 
which is a big US ally.

Regardless of Ford's "we couldn't help it" story, the company did sue 
the US government after World War 2 for losses incurred during the 
bombing of its factories in World War 2 by Allied pilots, and the US 
government paid Ford recompense.

-Oliver


jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:

> Actually, the Nazis appropriated the plants in the thirties, so they 

> weren't "owned by Ford".

>