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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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Restitution: Broken Promises
This story looks at Germany's promises to restore art that was lost, confiscated, or sold under Nazi Germany during World War II. The investigation uncovers the flaws of Germany's federal restitution policy due to its highly decentralized structure and unstable public authority.
Tags: World War II; Germany; Nazi; federal restitution policy; museums
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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
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OMYA and WWII
This story "traces a Swiss company's collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. The story details the problems encountered by Pluess-Staufer AG as a result of its business dealings with Nazi Germany during the war. Its OMYA subsidiary, the world's largest producer of calcium carbonate (a key mineral used in the manufacture of paint, paper, plastics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals) was charged by the French in late 1944 with collaborating with the enemy during the war. It was one of the largest cases of economic collaboration in the Department (state) of the Marne. According to company documents, the fine and 'confiscation of illicit profits' threatened the company's very survival. OMYA and Pluess-Staufer spent 13 years fighting the French decision before losing its final appeal in 1957. In Germany, the company encountered problems as well. The Allies froze Pluess-Staufer's assets in Karlsruhe when it discovered its business partner was a member of the SS."
Tags: Nazi; factories; WWII; economic collaboration; calcium carbonate; OMYA; Pluess-Staufer; Marne region; chalk quarry; purges
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Search for Justice
ABC News 20/20 reports "an investigation of one of Germany's largest pharmaceutical companies Bayer and its role in human medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates during World War II. .... documented for the first time the depth and scope of Bayer's involvement in human medical experiments in concentration camps. The research protocol in (one) case involved infecting healthy children with life-threatening diseases like typhus and then using experimental Bayer vaccines to see if they could combat the disease...."
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The dilemmas of experimenting on people
A half-century after the creation of the Nuremberg Code of research ethics, scientists still struggle to strike a balance between human rights and medical progress. Technology Review examines the struggle doctors face in trying to live up to the code.
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After the Wall documents the state of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The author claims that the "new" Germany is a troubled nation uncertain of its own identity, dependent on approval from the outside world, and resentful of its own size and weight. (June 1995)
Tags: Fisher After the wall Contest entry Nazi Communism Government Foreign press coverage BOOK
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Spy Magazine (New York) examines the U.S. public relation firms and lobbyist groups that represent Third World dictatorships with terrible human rights records, such as Iraq, Romania, Haiti, Zaire, Liberia, El Salvador, the People's Republic of China and Guatemala; lobbyists rationalize their representation as attempting to reform the countries' leaders by encouraging dramatic changes in the governments; Spy reporter impersonates neo-Nazi leader in Germany wanting an American public relations firm to represent her party; the public relations official agrees to represent the party, February 1992.
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In These Times (Chicago) reports on the rise of anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay high-tech video games being marketed on the black market by neo-Nazi groups to the youth throughout Western Europe, especially Germany and Austria, where 22 percent of the country's high schoolers had played them; there is the likelihood that the hate-mongering games will cross the Atlantic, Aug. 21, 1991.
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