Elon musk.....

[Dirtman]

Oh come on, how many pages can we possibly have about a battery... or... wait, what the hell was this thread about?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Right - like I said, he had a strong history of anti semitism. Hitler was a fan of Ford and gave him the award you posted a picture of above. That's not the same as actually endorsing or joining the Nazi party. Both Ford and GM have a dark history of involvement on both sides of the war effort. They used the need for equipment as a way to build their businesses. Thankfully, Ford's grandson put a lot of effort into separating the company from that past.

They did a lot of good too and coming online as hard as they did switching to wartime production greatly sped up the war.

For awhile Ford was building B-24's one a minute, most went to Europe. Made a lot of Jeeps too.

It is a complex thing, govt kinda killed car production during the war so they didn't have much else to do. Even farm stuff was greatly limited (and buying selling them was a weird raffle thing)

 

[fastpakr]

Absolutely. It would be a simple conversation if they'd only been involved on one side though. Henry Ford's past as well as the German arm of Ford's wartime production makes it a little more complicated.