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[-] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 167 points 1 year ago

I recently was in the BMW museum and they actually had a whole section dedicated to their Nazi past and how they want to never do that again. Do with that what you will but at least they're not shoving it under the carpet.

[-] zaph@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

It's important not to forget the past. If America treated slavery the same way we'd be a lot further socially.

[-] ox0r@jlai.lu 23 points 1 year ago

Reminder that the USA was a big inspiration for the nazis.

They pretty much wanted to make a USA II

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

It's not like they used IQ tests as justification for forced sterilization or anything... Wait what?

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[-] Gamey@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

That's actually very missleading, like most involved companies they tried everything to hide it till the shitstorm got too big and the damage to their image was smaller that way so we shouldn't give them any credit for that whatsoever!!!

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Every single business in existence will sell out any value they say they hold for profit.

If they don’t another business will, welcome to capitalism.

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[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
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[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago

Back when I worked at IBM, there were a bunch of flags hanging in the cafeteria that represented every country where IBM did business. We often wondered, why wasn't there a Nazi Germany flag? After all, IBM did sell a ton of machines to the Nazis to keep track of Jews and other undesirables, in order to commit genocide. I wonder why IBM wouldn't want people to know about that? /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

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[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 112 points 1 year ago

Doing business with Nazis because it's profitable. Nazis died, BMW regrets.

Doing business with fossil fuel because it's profitable. Earth dies, BMW regrets.

I see a pattern here

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 35 points 1 year ago

Hmmm... Maybe we shouldn't prioritize profits over all else?

Nah, nvm. That can't be right.

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah they literally used extermination camp forced labour, that much we know without doubt so they were pretty damn complicit. Tried to research whether BMW ever actually made gas vans, but couldn't find a definitive confirmation or good evidence to the contrary from a reputable source, so gonna say they might have.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fun fact: The grandmother of the current BMW owner Gabriele Quandt was literally Magda Goebbels. No, seriously.

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

On a similar note Deutsche Bank literally funded the Nazis and to this day is still doing shady shit like the numerous money laundering scandals and also being involved in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal. For each of those, including funding the Nazis, they merely got a slap on the wrist as they're literally still allowed to exist as one of the top 10 biggest banks of Europe.

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[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago
[-] Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Now that's a classic reddit comment right there. The more things change, the more they stay the same lol

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

It's missing the "Anne Frankly" opener.

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[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago

i think that pun’s older than the internet

[-] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I imagine two soldiers in the trenches and one just says that when something unexpected happens and the other just smacks him in the back of the head.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

Other than the giant swastika, does it bother anyone else that the kerning is uneven? The B is farther away from the M than the M is from the W.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Well it didn't

[-] Soupbreaker@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Other than that, how was the kerning, Mrs. Lincoln?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I thought Germans were supposed to be sticklers for detail!

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[-] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

Yikes, I also looked into the background of Ferdinand Porsche, and man, he was a real Nazi summabitch.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Hitler was directly behind the development of the VW Beetle with Porsche doing the engineering work.

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[-] hardly_alex@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

These shitposts are too real

[-] sadreality@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Not a good look ehh?

Is that even legal to post in Germany?

[-] Gamey@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Considering BMW is one of the worse profiteers from WW2 it probably classifies as satire or something else art related!

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