Nazism

Nazism

Assignment 10

Assignment: Choose either a passage from this blog and write out the way in which we have done all the assignment 1) Quote; 2) Interpretation; 3) why you chose the quote. Or choose a scene from the movie, describe it, interpret it, and explain why you chose this scene.

Quote

“Although both companies claim they lost control of operations during the Nazi regime both companies still retained legal control throughout the Nazi era and benefited from the profits of these companies during and after the war without ever being asked to pay anything in reparations, the U.S government actually paid them after the war to repair damages to their facilities.”

Interpretation

                The Quote is basically saying that during world war two, Ford and General Motor owned production plants in Germany. These production plants produced trucks and other products for the Nazi regime. Ford and General Motors insisted that they lost control over the plants, but they did profit from the products that were produced. Having made profit at an unjust cost they did not make any payments to the countries that were at war with Germany. And the quote ends by saying that after the war the company got money to rebuild their companies from the government.     

why you chose the quote

                I want to start with saying that I had no idea that General Motor and Ford benefited from the war. Never have I ever heard anyone mentioned such a thing. Most of the time when we hear discussion about world war two we always here the fact that so many Jews died, and the fact that it was a “world war” (meaning spread out to so many continent, America, Asia, Europe and Africa), however I never heard any one mentioned that Ford and General Motor companies benefited. Not to say that the killing of a race should not be discussed about, but we should know the whole story of what happened not just one aspect. After reading this it make me think that if they benefited from the war then there had to be other companies that benefited from the war. This also makes me think and wonder who is making money from the wars that are going on right now. I don’t know, but I hope General motors and Ford made a lot of donations to people that were affected by the war. The things that makes me really mad is that first they say they lost control, but they still take all the profit and not pay any reparations and  then they get money from uncle Sam. That is ridicules because if you think about it those trucks that were produced transported material and war products to the Germany army and in turn those war material were used to kill US troops and then you hear that a US company took the profits its out of my scope to understand how they were allowed to do that.