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Hitler's Carmaker: GM and the Nazis
Black attempts to prove veracity of an urban legend regarding GM's relationship with Germany. As the Nazi war machine gathered steam, General Motors was a major helper as the German military built its dominance. At the same time, GM was "perpetrating a massive criminal conspiracy to subvert clean, electric mass transit - trolleys - in 40 cities, thus helping our addiction to oil." GM had buried its past involvement with the Nazis by funding an academic inquiry, then keeping the results secret even after donating them to Yale University.
Tags: General Motors; Nazi Germany; Opel; trolleys; Adolf Hitler; oil addiction
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Hitler's Lake
60 Minutes II examined one of Hitler's schemes during WWII: "160 Jewish prisoners were hand-picked from concentration camps and forced to work on forging the British pound note and later the American hundred dollar bill. At war's end, today's equivalent of $4.5 billion in pound notes was being circulated in Europe, Africa and South America. ... We located one of Hitler's last living counterfeiters, Adolf Burger. Not only was this gentleman able to tell us the story of the fake bills, but he also shared his own personal odyssey; one that began in Auschwitz with his wife and ended in Ebensee, Austria, five death camps later, a widower."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; WWII; Adolf Hitler; counterfeit; war
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Mark of Dishonor?
A Dateline investigation reveals that "Chase National Bank, the predecessor of Chase Manhattan, raised millions of dollars for the Third Reich in a clandestine project called the Rueckwanderer Marks Operation" from 1936 to 1941.The funds were "used to finance Hitler's war machine, and some of the profits came from forced Jewish real-estate sales in Germany."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Chase National Bank; Chase Manhattan; Germany; Third Reich; Adolf Hitler; Nazis; World War II; Jews; Holocaust