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Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 and grew up in a poor family in Braunau am Inn, a small Austrian village on the border with the Germany. [2] 3 of his siblings —Gustav, Ida, and Otto— died in infancy due to common childhood diseases. [3] Hitler's mother, Klara, was a homemaker; his father, Alois, unsuccessfully tried to establish a farm. [4]
Another source quotes this figure at 46,000. The company later paid $12 million in reparations to the labourers' families. [140] Merck Group [141] Logo Merck KGaA 2015: 1933 Darmstadt, Germany: Members of the Merck family supported Hitler and the Nazi party enthusiastically, helping to manufacture pharmaceuticals using Nazi slave labor.
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and the Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8. Turner, Henry A. (1985). German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford University Press. Further reading. Abt, Parker (2017). "The Nazi Fiscal Cliff: Unsustainable Financial Practices before World War II".
13 March: Hitler convincingly defeated by Hindenburg in first round of German presidential election. 10 April: Hindenburg re-elected Reichspräsident in run-off election with 53% of the vote. Hitler gains 37% and the Communist candidate Thälmann gains 10.2%. 13 April: The SA and SS are banned by Chancellor Brüning.
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.
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 ]
Furthermore, in 1942, the Greek Central Bank was forced by the occupying Nazi regime to lend 476 million Reichsmarks at 0% interest to Nazi Germany. [ 56 ] After the war, Greece received its share of the reparations paid by Germany to the Allies as part of the proceedings of the Paris Reparation Treaty of 1946 which the Inter-Allied Reparations ...
The Geneva Convention's mandate of equal treatment for prisoners also meant they were paid American military wages. [22]: 78 [23] They could work on farms or elsewhere only if they were also paid for their labor, and officers could not be compelled to work. As the United States sent millions of soldiers overseas, the resulting shortage of labor ...