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Employment numbers are including all subsidiaries as long as the parent company is the majority shareholder, that is, holds more than 50 percent of the stock. An exception is Telefunken , which is included in the list as it was a joint venture of Siemens and Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft which each company holding 50 percent of the ...
Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt]) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party.
The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...
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.
German name English name Description Date founded Ahnenerbe: Ancestral Heritage: A think tank to research the history of the Aryan race; see also List of Ahnenerbe institutes: 1935 Amerikadeutscher Bund: German American Bund: An American Nazi organization Anti-Komintern: Anti-Comintern: An agency for anti-Soviet propaganda 1933 Bund Deutscher ...
SS-Sturm ("SS-Company"): The Sturm was the company-level formation of the General-SS and the most typical in which an average SS member would associate. Each Sturmbann had 3 to 5 of them. [11] Company commanders usually rated a rank between Untersturmführer and Hauptsturmführer. SS-Trupp ("SS-Troop"): SS-Troops were platoon-sized formations.
The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II. Lund, Joachim (August 1, 2006). Working for the New Order: European Business Under German Domination, 1939–1945. Copenhagen Business School Press DK. ISBN 978-87-630-0186-1. Urwand, Ben (September 10, 2013). The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler. Harvard University Press.
Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe (German: for 'German Economic Enterprises'), abbreviated DWB, was a project launched by Nazi Germany in World War II. Organised and managed by the Allgemeine SS, its aim was to profit from the use of slave labour extracted from the Nazi concentration camp inmates.