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[–] 176 points 3 years ago (11 children)

I recently was in the BMW museum and they actually had a whole section dedicated to their Nazi past and how they want to never do that again. Do with that what you will but at least they're not shoving it under the carpet.

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  • [–] 75 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    It's important not to forget the past. If America treated slavery the same way we'd be a lot further socially.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago

    That's actually very missleading, like most involved companies they tried everything to hide it till the shitstorm got too big and the damage to their image was smaller that way so we shouldn't give them any credit for that whatsoever!!!

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    [–] 130 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Back when I worked at IBM, there were a bunch of flags hanging in the cafeteria that represented every country where IBM did business. We often wondered, why wasn't there a Nazi Germany flag? After all, IBM did sell a ton of machines to the Nazis to keep track of Jews and other undesirables, in order to commit genocide. I wonder why IBM wouldn't want people to know about that? /s

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

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    [–] 113 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Doing business with Nazis because it's profitable. Nazis died, BMW regrets.

    Doing business with fossil fuel because it's profitable. Earth dies, BMW regrets.

    I see a pattern here

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Nah they literally used extermination camp forced labour, that much we know without doubt so they were pretty damn complicit. Tried to research whether BMW ever actually made gas vans, but couldn't find a definitive confirmation or good evidence to the contrary from a reputable source, so gonna say they might have.

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  • [–] 76 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Fun fact: The grandmother of the current BMW owner Gabriele Quandt was literally Magda Goebbels. No, seriously.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    On a similar note Deutsche Bank literally funded the Nazis and to this day is still doing shady shit like the numerous money laundering scandals and also being involved in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal. For each of those, including funding the Nazis, they merely got a slap on the wrist as they're literally still allowed to exist as one of the top 10 biggest banks of Europe.

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    [–] 43 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Other than the giant swastika, does it bother anyone else that the kerning is uneven? The B is farther away from the M than the M is from the W.

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yikes, I also looked into the background of Ferdinand Porsche, and man, he was a real Nazi summabitch.

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    [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    These shitposts are too real

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not a good look ehh?

    Is that even legal to post in Germany?

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