• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    Ford was actually collaborating with the socialist party in Germany. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party actually

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        Ford’s factories in Germany have used “ostarbeiters” during the war, aka Soviet POWs, taken to Germany as slave labour

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          At least this story is not getting worse.

          Are these the USians who were compensated after the war because their German factories were destroyed?

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            Don’t have that information, sorry. Although it does sound plausible that the likes of aforementioned Ford would get compensated, I don’t have such data.

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            Yes, Ford sued the US for destruction of their plants in Germany, the same plants making numerous war machines, and won.