Why did these companies partner with Nazi Germany?

Several well-established American companies aided Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, directly profiting from the atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish People.
These include well-known businesses like IBM, which supplied data processing systems to the Nazi regime, and Ford, whose German subsidiary produced military vehicles for the Wehrmacht.
The majority of individuals involved in the decision to do business with Nazi Germany were motivated by greed rather than anti-semitism. The question remains whether or not these corporations should continue to be held responsible today for the role they played in the murder of Jews during World War II.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 Motive #1: Antisemitism - Ford Motors, Texaco, and Rockefeller
01:13 Motive #2: Greed - General Electric and IBM
04:32 Motive #3: Profit over patriotism - Kodak
05:39 How should we handle companies that collaborated with Nazis?
06:40 Human rights violations by companies today
07:00 Incentivizing ethical bahavior
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National Archives and Records Administration
Library of Congress
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British Pathé
Ford Motor Company
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Time Magazine
Newspapers.com: National Post, The News Tribune, The Roanoke Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Vancouver Sun
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Dutch National Archives
FloridaMemory.com
Eastman Kodak
Universal Pictures
Red Granite Pictures
Paramount Pictures
General Electric
Ivory Way Productions
20th Television
MGM
Transit Film
American Entertainment Partners, 20th Century Fox
Sony Pictures Television
Premier Productions
International Business Machines Corporation
National Tuberculosis Association
Coronet Instructional Films
Dialog Press
Bell System
PACT
Hal Roach Studios
Artgrid
Associated Press
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[@mr.normalguy69]

Reminds me of Hugo Boss, Volkswagen and Mitsubishi

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Hugo Boss was a Nazi party member. Ferdinand Porsche built armored vehicles and cars for the Nazis. Volkswagen was literally a Nazi project and Hitler contributed to the design of the VW Beetle.

[@olanderdecastro52]

My father in law was a bomber pilot in WWII (B-26 8th Air Force). I remember the look on his face when his daughter and I pulled into his driveway driving a new Mitsubishi Galant. I asked him what he thought of the car and he said, “From the people who brought us Pearl Harbor..”. We drove our other car (Chevy) to family events after that.

[@mr.normalguy69]

@@olanderdecastro52 The conversation must have been fun.

[@olanderdecastro52]

@@mr.normalguy69 well, he gave me the benefit of the doubt since I was a young naïve guy. However, I did learn quickly about Mitsubishi and VW and Krups and Porsche and even standard oil are used to send tankers off the coast of Nova Scotia to refuel German U-boats, in 1940 and 41. Things are not so black-and-white, especially when it comes to money and tyranny.

[@stevedgrossman]

@@olanderdecastro52 At some point the war ends. So you want to boycott everything? Why do you buy goods from China? Or any other communist country?

[@gloryakiepper7918]

Thank you for this. Wow I never knew this. You are important in the info you put out. I must say you are the best channel I came upon. Am Yisroel Chai .

[@mertalakr573]

For further reading, I recommend the article "How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power" in The Guardian.

[@user-uz7dm6qn3y]

And another article how Obama helped Iran get an A-bomb.

[@deeznutz8320]

The Gaurdian😂

[@Avigdor1655]

He laundered Nazi blood monies through the bank UBC he co owned.

[@macewbee]

Yep

[@shainazion4073]

Because of the film from Kodak, we have the proof of the Holocaust!

[@stevedgrossman]

And... do you think Kodak was the only company at the time that manufactured still and movie film?

[@erikstekelenburg3020]

No compromises pls. I get sick of all the compromises everywhere. Confess and pay back! That should be the penalty. RIP this company off everything they have and make them an example for people who are considering to do the same for PROFIT ya! They are useless, selfish and nothing but serial killers. We need back grace and dignity!

[@BroadcastBuddy]

What proof?

[@stephenwright8824]

@@erikstekelenburg3020 So buy Fuji Film instead. 😄🇮🇪🇺🇲

[@hyperbaroque]

Yes. And American Eugenics Society was Adolph Hitler's inspiration to enact eugenics policies in his dreamed-of remergence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[@stephenwright8824]

Looks like somebody is deliberately ignorant of history. Hitler was trying to restore the *GERMAN EMPIRE of Frederick I Barbarossa.* He thought the Hohoenzollerns were fools.

[@wickiezulu]

With Henry Ford it is weird to note he was actually said to have met with Andre Citroen a few times as a photo exists online of the two and expressed no aversion towards Citroen, the latter gladly viewing being referred as the Henry Ford of France as a compliment.

[@insaanietihad-MSB]

Yeah there is still time let's tell corporations and countries to boycott and incentives to firms who stand with moral sides in Ukraine vs Russia war......the world has hardly changed ever since WWII it breaks my heart and makes me angry that the world has not learned it's lesson from the very recent horrific past despite the fact it effected everyone around the world.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Hello my dear! Why has the world not changed? It’s because we are light years ahead of the caveman in technology but are brains have barely changed. Here we are in 2023, “talking monkeys with nuclear weapons.” Let alone political ideologies that do nothing but give in to the inner cave man: communism, fascism, political Islam.

[@sonicmiku3009]

It's not just we haven't learned. It's people who don't have the power to rise against them. If it benefits the higher ups, then they will listen.

[@drdonna4915]

Thank you. Unpacked is wonderful!

[@theultimategamer9240]

Second comment but first like lol love your videos!

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Will u consider doing an updated video on the righteous among men?

[@janlindtner305]

Well done. Excellent to get prunes on the counter. More of that stuff.

[@geriattrique7141]

I remember this being covered in the documentary The Corporation 😢💔 it’s so gross and important we never forget this

[@christophersmith1155]

THIS WHY MOST JEWISH PEOPLE WONT BUY A FORD, LINCOLN, MERCURY.

[@PerPress]

Very good, but ALBERT KAHN was a Jewish company from Detroit. A consulting architect to the Soviet Government in the 30s. Stalin continued his war/terror against his own population even after the so-called Nuremberg "trials."

[@emet6306]

As it's been said before if we do not learn from history will just keep repeating the same mistakes

[@cole716]

Great videos and excellent host

[@schwartd]

Do you have one on Nazi companies that still today profit (e.g. Bayer, Lufthansa, Wolkswagon)

[@stevedgrossman]

Huh? Makes no sense.

[@Redkodiak1994]

Reminds me of that song from toxik the pt were Michael Douglas said greed is good

[@patgraeme775]

Solid take, thank you

[@7.2]

Is anyone surprised? I'm absolutely not...same shoresh

[@dpjbdpjb]

Good video but you should have included Standard Oil who gave the Germans a fuel additive technology so their planes could get off the ground

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

"The love of money is the root of all evil".

[@Avigdor1655]

Bullcrap the Roma Gypsies have just won the right to sue IBM's subsidiary in Switzerland.

[@macewbee]

Sad but true and they paid the victim to and war is a sick business.

[@unkolawdio]

Yep

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

Bayer AG were undoubtedly the worst. They actively helped the final solution

[@poil8351]

unfortunately the answer is yes banks especially had a terible of history making prfoit thorough their eastern eurpoean subsidies.

[@jennsadventures84]

I would hope we could learn from our past. But, alas we haven't. Money is at the root of most evils. We can make our own financial choices and hopefully feel ok. We can research things. And hopefully it's a good assessment.

[@GlobetrottingC]

Do you like your left profile that much? Face us!

[@MartinMartinm]

''What should we do'', it's funny how it's ''we'' when it's benefiting but ''individuals'' when it's not.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

It's a rhetorical expression. You must not be a native English speaker

[@MartinMartinm]

@@RobespierreThePoof I am.

[@billbbobby2889]

Read or watch videos on Anthony Sutton explaining all the real details about WW2.

[@swagkachu3784]

Nope

[@swagkachu3784]

Volkswagen is very popular in isreal and they know who created volkswagen

[@mannyquinn5841]

Follow the money.

[@stephenwright8824]

Mark Felt never said that.

[@mannyquinn5841]

@@stephenwright8824 But the Jews learned the lesson well. Now they are applying it to the Palestinians. If you think that Hamas and the the Jews are enemies, well, you are off the track. They are partners in war to enlarge Israel's territory. Isn't it sad that the only territory in the world is Palestine, with Palestinians refugees? The worst enemy of the Palestinian people is not Israel. IT'S Hamas!!!

[@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155]

Just got to say as a member of the first generation of Jews born to survivors of the Holocaust...NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE! They knew what they were doing, they knew it was wrong, & yet they did it anyway to make money. As a proud American I also have to say that the US Government should not again sign contracts with these companies until not only they pay full reparations to the survivors or their heirs, but also that an equal amount goes to Isreal & both the survivors or their heirs get a full & public apology along with one to Isreal. Why do you think so much military equipment is built for Isreal in Germany? It is Germany giving Isreal their repeatedly.

[@Ken-go2sm]

were they really comitted??! when the fact that they came very late like literally 1944 to secure the western countries from falling to the soviet influence. Does in it weird when the soviet literally begged for the americans to open the second front but they came very very late

[@binyominsilverman1592]

1943 the Americans already had a second front, though stalled at Anzio and montecassino. D-day was a third front.

[@Ken-go2sm]

@@binyominsilverman1592 yeah but operation Barbarossa happened at 1941 and the soviet literally begged for them but the yankees were extremerly slow. 27 Soviet citizens died of nazi barbar it really shows who actually care about the Nazi scum. Klaus Barbie was literally used by the Americans to crush the communists meanwhile in the eastern front all Nazi soldiers have to take responsibility for their actions

[@MFPhoto1]

Henry Ford at one time was considering a run for the Presidency. Hitler offered to send over a few of his brown shirts to help Ford "campaign." Anybody here like Fanta fruit flavored sodas? This brand was developed during the war by Coca-Cola's German division, because they could not import the Coca-Cola syrup.

[@Daniel-os9tb]

And their still doing it today in China.

[@stephenwright8824]

Quite a variety of views and misconceptions in the comments in this whole channel. It's like it goes from gallons of _tu quoque_ beer being handed out like water with one video to an almost precious misinterpretation of modern history in another. Still shamefully predictable though.

[@lennyoatman5451]

NO

[@micheleventuroni2080]

0:06 yes USA were very committed but it was Soviet Red Army that liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau.

[@donpula6349]

True, the western allies (US,UK,France) liberated at the western side of Europe, and while the Soviets liberated the Eastern Side (that includes Poland, where there were numerous camps than the western side).

[@ChienaAvtzon]

But is was the Americans who liberated Buchenwald and took pictures of what the Nazis actually did.

[@stephenwright8824]

@@ChienaAvtzon Because Eisenhower, a man with German heritage who knew how easily the fact of the Holocaust could be dismissed, denied etc, wanted to have an unassailable record of what was going on.

[@fangsclaws]

What??

[@nohisocitutampoc2789]

Thèse vidéos from History are really interestings. Look dificult t'he amunt or Monet in thé réparations.. but IS this kind or ideas and Simon,all or this IS one apport incontournable in termes to entendre que havia estat passant. Molt més interès que quan us dediqueua mostrar la cuina hebreZq😅ue és la cosa més avorrida del mon

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Is called profit, if thee is a means it will be used,

[@jjquasar232]

First

[@AYtbBxQK]

Holy+cost 🤣.

[@celtiberian07]

There must have bewn Jewish bord members and share holders in these companies

[@Afflictamine]

yeah the americans helped them build the swimming pool, uh I mean the showers

[@hrvatskinoahid1048]

Keep the 7 Noahide commandments and leave Jews alone.

[@Afflictamine]

@@hrvatskinoahid1048 I saw you spam the same comment somewhere else, no thanks

[@hrvatskinoahid1048]

​@@Afflictamine If you saw it, stop trolling Jews.

[@ryanmoore2447]

Your like a digital encyclopedia of Israel

[@Avigdor1655]

Wrong a company is classed as a person in blacks law dictionary, person taken from the Greek persona meaning mask an actor playing a role, an imposter pretending to be that which it is not.

[@Antichristlamic]

Shadowbanning slime.

[@user-wh8ow9hr6v]

Business is Business....get over it.