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Like Swiss banks, American car companies deny helping the Nazi war machine or profiting from forced labor at their German subsidiaries during World War II. [9] "General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland," according to Bradford Snell. "The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland.
While it operated, it produced commodities vital to the German military forces before and during World War II. After substantial damage from strategic bombing, the firm and its remaining assets were dissolved at the end of the war. [214] As Germany deepened its commitment to World War II, Brabag's plants became vital elements of the war effort.
Drucker developed an extensive consulting business built around his personal relationship with top management. He became legendary among many of post-war Japan's new business leaders trying to rebuild their war-torn homeland. He advised the heads of General Motors, Sears, General Electric, W.R. Grace and IBM, among many others.
Shacks erected by the Bonus Army on the Anacostia flats burning after being set on fire by the US military (1932). On July 17, 1932, thousands of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., set up tent camps, and demanded immediate payment of bonuses due to them according to the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 (which made certain bonuses initially due no earlier than 1925 ...
Historians have long contended that the growing burdens of the war saw Germany move to a full war-economy under the efficient [133] leadership of Speer. However, historian Richard Overy contends this is a myth based on the flimsy conclusions of the Strategic Bombing Survey , which relied on the views of one German official from the German ...
William Signius Knudsen (March 25, 1879 – April 27, 1948) was a leading Danish-American automotive industry executive and an American general during World War II.. His experience and success as a key senior manager in the operations sides of Ford Motor Company and then General Motors led the Franklin Roosevelt administration to commission him directly as a lieutenant general in the United ...
Bernard Mannes Baruch [nb 1] (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier and statesman.. After amassing a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange, he impressed President Woodrow Wilson by managing the nation's economic mobilization in World War I as chairman of the War Industries Board.
Capitalizing Patriotism: The Liberty Loans of World War I (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006, No. w11919) Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (Oxford University Press, 2004) Koistinen, Paul A.C. "The 'Industrial-Military Complex' in Historical Perspective: World War I," Business History Review (1967 ...