Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Throughout his rise to power, Hitler neglected to pay taxes on his income and allowances. [20] In 1934, one year after becoming Chancellor, the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494 ℛ︁ℳ︁ for failing to declare his income or file tax returns. [18] He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. [18]
[77] Thus, the Nazi state did not resort to "blunt-instrument forms of coercion" because it did not need to, not because it was unwilling to do so. After 1938, "examples had been made, fear inspired, and the lessons internalized, on both sides of the business-state divide."
[215] German business leaders co-operated with the Nazis during their rise to power and received substantial benefits from the Nazi state after it was established, including high profits and state-sanctioned monopolies and cartels. [216]
Once the war had begun, the foreign subsidiaries were seized and nationalized by the Nazi-controlled German state, and work conditions deteriorated, as they did throughout German industry. About 12 million forced labourers, most of whom were Eastern Europeans , were employed in the German war economy inside Nazi Germany during the war. [ 13 ]
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.
A video making the rounds on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube claims that Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company, was involved in deadly medical testing on Auschwitz prisoners during the Holocaust.
Nov. 29—The Ohio University Southern Council on Diversity and Inclusion has announced the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Contest for 2024. This contest, open to students in grades 6 ...
Ye, previously known as Kanye West, paid a settlement to a former employee who alleged that the rapper and designer had used antisemitic language in the workplace, according to documents reviewed ...