Well VW made the Doodlebug V1 bomb so it's not their first killing machine.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 2 Jul 2015, 11:09,
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In the same way that Morris - Rover - London Taxi Company and many more car brands in the Midlands were making assorted aircraft and munitions the whole war. This is why Coventry got bombed into the ground because there was something like 30 different car makers based there.
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Yup
And along with other companies like Bosch & Mercedes got very rich using slave labour from concentration camps.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 2 Jul 2015, 13:33,
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My Bosch dishwasher is very good so they can't be all bad.
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Pig Bodine., Thu 2 Jul 2015, 14:19,
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Also Philips - but no one here in NL wants you to know that.
They ran a slave labour camp cut into a mountain somewhere.
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Interesting, did they ever pay reparations?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 2 Jul 2015, 14:47,
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No I dont think so.
I am too hot and tired to find it right now but I know it was in Czechoslovakia and they had thousands of slaves working for them.
Shell were also well in with the Nazis - royaldutchshellplc.com/2013/06/05/how-shell-collaborated-in-the-nazi-annexation-of-austria-and-czechoslovakia/
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