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Why These Brands Would Rather You Forget World War 2
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- Here, we'll be taking a look at some of your favourite brands/companies and their shady dealings and profiteering in the most devastating war in human history.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:46 Nestle
2:24 Hugo Boss
3:15 Chanel
4:05 Kodak
4:59 IBM
6:28 BMW
7:16 Ford
8:53 General Motors
9:55 Alcoa
10:30 Dow Chemical Company
11:07 Standard Oil New Jersey
11:50 IG Farben
13:14 Cigarette Companies
13:51 Other Companies
14:59 Conclusion
The entire country of Japan wishes you could forget ww2 happened.
True
yeah, especially their companies.
So make sure you never buy a Mitsubishi car. They built the Zero ffs.
And Unit 731.
You know it's bad when Padraig Pearse himself points it out
this video is made posible by: *brands in video*
Haha, you're not wrong!
@@TheFront Why These Brands Would Rather You Forget The Front
War.is.big money. Money doesn't care.
🤣😂
@@johnbockelie3899 big money doesnt give a damn to the life lost in war
Imagine you’re part of a group of British soldiers driving through France on a lend lease truck and it breaks down. You find an abandoned German truck nearby and look for parts that you can rig up to you truck and conveniently most of the parts fit together rather well.
Too well you might add.
How considerate of the Germans to make their parts compatible with ours.
Better than walking to Germany.
Here’s a quote from my grandpa, who was a mechanic in WWII:
“We never ran out of parts, all the German trucks had parts that fit in ours. Our parts never fit in theirs. Their truck parts almost never fit in their trucks either. That’s why we won.”
Shady, perhaps. But the fact that the Allies could repair their trucks on the fly-meanwhile the Nazis were hilariously bad at logistics-was also a boon.
"Somethings wrong I can feel it"
All companies have dirty pasts, but I dont think nestle wants you knowing anything they're up to *now*
There's that whole baby formula thing in Africa they'd like sweep under the rug
@@jamesmacleod9382 The water stuff is really shady too
@@josecarioca8785 i heard the water is mostly controled by a french company
@@INWMI That is another part of Africa. There is also that french uranium company that irradiates water sources because of radon pollution...
Guelph is a good start. Canada ontario...
IBM would definitely prefer you don't research their activities during the holocaust.
IBM is for all intents and purposes dead.
@@stephenwright8824 lol you couldnt be more wrong.
Stephen Wright actually whilst you don’t see them a lot publicly anymore they still make huge amounts of money building, operating and maintaining data centres for private companies and governments. They still make lots of advances in computing nowadays though mostly for the business market and focusing in networking technologies.
IBM is only worth like 200 billion dollars or something. You know, that sounds very dead. Any kid got that kind of pocket money, you know. So dead.
IBM has been shelled and hidden.
In the last decade it attacked both Australian and Canadian federal institutions with purposefully fraudulent pay software.
I knew we should have stormed nestle headquarters
Nestlé is pretty much pure evil in form of a company.
The real TJB It‘s just the Swiss kind of nazism.
Why?
Edin743 it was a meme where I’m from because it went along with the Area 51 raid
And they are a horrible Corporation that exploit every chance they get like with Pakistan’s water
@@marianoperezromero3277 Ah i see, i did suspect it had something with A-51 meme but i was not sure
Every time you call Nestlé "nestle", I want to punch the screen.
Edit: I no longer give a sheet how people pronounce this word.
Haha, me too.
The Front are you not the narrator? It’s like the narrator never heard of the company before and has to derive the pronunciation from reading. It’s pronounced “Ness-Lee” or I would settle for “Ness-Lay”.
@@Bobdixon_Moonvarga_Dancer_III Mistakes were made.
@@TheFront Sounds like a Flemish accent.
@@Bobdixon_Moonvarga_Dancer_III Well he's an Aussie and traditionally Nestle was pronounced, "Nessells" in Australia. Its own advertising used to pronounce it this way. It is only since the 90s that anyone in Oz has said the "lay" at the end.
Hugo Boss, for when you absolutely have to invade someone.
hugo boss.. is what i wear when i travel... Nazi is all good the rest just some asshole..
LMFAO 🤣👍
So that everyone will know you're a cool-looking supervillain...while committing genocide.
Best comment 👌
Boss - for when you want to be the bad guys but look damn fine doin' it.
"Deathsticks" I caught that reference
You dont want to sell me deathsticks
You want to go home and rethink your life
@@takedown1865 I'm going to go home and rethink my life
Hahaha, this thread
@@TheFront we're probably all Geetslys followers too
I don't think the cigarette companies should be labeled shady. Cigarettes won't kill you as fast as the enemy will. Cigarettes also have a calming effect on you, soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines had no other choice. That's like saying Mauser is shady because they made the small arms of Germany
Sweet. Thanks for your input!
@@TheFront Hello, I think he is right, the harsh condition of trenshes warfare were so horrible that cigarette were probably one of the best way to deal with them.
Most men were smokers back then. You don't want your soldiers fighting a war and being distracted by nicotine withdrawal.
So I agree, the company's weren't shady. If you didnt smoke you could trade a pack for chocolate or something.
when you invest your money in thing.. you kind of want your chance to be in best postion is like you try to sell your old house or car.. you know there are problem but you don't tell people where...
@@unsuspiciouschair4501 Maybe having everyone on nicotine withdrawal would have made the us soldiers more agressive considering almost no Americans were even shooting their guns
As a Frenchman, I'll stick with all I know: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel had little financial interest her brand (10%), and was largerly ostracised after the war for her high-profile love affair with a German officer during Occupation. The main shareholders of Chanel from the start to this day have always been the Wertheimer family, French Jews who fled to the U.S. during WWII and succeeded to regain control after the war. As a fashion brand, Chanel was relaunched in the 50s and met little success until Karl Lagerfeld came onboard in 1983. The perfume brand has always been a cash cow, though, largely thanks to N°5 being the best selling female perfume for almost a century, along with a few others like Coco.
True but to be fair... The German army came to them and was like... "I need to outfit 3 million dudes with uniforms." Who wouldn't turn down that business?
Some it is different I think, with Mercedes for example they were essentially forced into providing work for the regime. There was no other major manufacturer of reliable trucks and engines so the Nazis used them for this. They didn't even produce regular cars during this era, I'm sure Hitler was using them as a power symbol as well. But I'd love to know if they actually were happy about this business
germany was socialist, you make those outfits or they will replace you with someone that will.
@@erispapps9929 No it wasn't, they were fascist, they were so fascist that they became the poster child for fascism. How do you not know this? Did you learn WWII from PragerU?
@@erispapps9929 Just because you put socialism in your name doesn't make you one. North Korea calls themselves democratic, but we know for a fact they aren't. Same thing applies here with the Nazi's, or America being the "land of the free".
@@erispapps9929 germany was capitalist, you make those outfits or they will replace you with someone that will
...Ford Motors / Henry Ford, Swiss Banks, the Bank of International Settlements, Evonik chemical company (formerly Degussa), Hugo Boss, I G Farben, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, IBM, etc.!
How about google, facebook, apple, mircosoft, disney and the NBA? The are just some of the companies that deal with the CCP. You know the party that has killed far far more people than the Nazis, fascist Italy and Imperial japan combined
Andrew Phillips as much as I agree with that this is not the place for that argument
Prosche built Königstigers (Tiger II tank)
As well as Thyssen-Krupp, which made millions of donations to the nsdap in order to secure military contracts and to stop the KPD and the Red Front which unionized thier workers. They made huge amounts of money building tanks, cannons and warships during world War 2,fled to Switzerland and Argentina after the war, where classed in the Nürnberg trials as "minorly involved" and then went right back to producing tanks and battleships for the BRD. They are still heavily involved in German military contracts, lobbied for more weapon exports and more involvement of the Bundeswehr overseas, and are suspected of making huge donations towards the new german far-right Party AfD. So nothing changed really
@The Senate you want this? You got it. I consider the AfD to be far right, as Germanys "actual" far right party, the NPD, was outlawed a few years ago. Most voters of the NPD migrated into the afd. With the NPD gone, the afd is the furthest right party Germany has to offer. In my opinion the CDU/CSU is right wing, with the AfD having considerably more radical standpoint. Relativism towards the holocaust, shooting orders at the border as well as open support for Nazi Terrorism and being spotted on openly nazi demonstrations make them far right. Now please explain what the hell goebbels has to do with this.
Honestly what Nestlé got up to during WW2 is probably some of the tamest shit they've done
Totally missed Krupp, the company that made a large percentage of all German armaments since the Franco-Prussian war, whose owner and most of their holdings were released after a short prison stint in an attempt by the US to use their industrial holdings to fight the Soviets. They used massive amounts of slave labor and were centrally concerned with German rearmament after WW1. After ww2, they merged with Thyssen steel, and still do international business in elevators and escalators to this day. In fact, the history of the company is so nuts that you could do an entire episode on the company and its dynasty of owners alone.
Today’s Name of Krupp is „Thyssen-Krupp Stahl AG“
-someone who lives near a Thyssen Krupp Stahlverarbeitungsanlage
@@noelblack8159 do you hate black people?
@@seams4186 Do you? Sincerely a black American man.
Near my hometown I saw Krupp railroad rails dated 1866.
Porsche hopes no one ever finds out about the Ferdinand/Elephant
eh it was a shite tank destroyer
and their Tiger too.
And the Maus
The Russians saw nothing, just a burning pile of steel
@@thomasbrady3827 The T-34/85 was a piece of sheeet too. That was effective because of the amount of them.
Btw, a T34/85 can't shoot through a Tiger 2's front or side armor
It's worth mentioning that Degesch, the production company that manufactured Zyklon B, is now called Detia-Degesch. It continued to produce Zyklon B for several decades after the war, first as Zyklon B and then under the new brand name Cyanosil. I think they only ceased mass production of the stuff in/after the 1980s, and they may still produce it for professional use on farms in developing countries.
Vulpes Inculta best part - a few years back a Holocaust war memorial (can’t remember its name - it’s rows of concrete pillars) was having issues with graffiti. They contacted a chemical company to make an anti graffiti paint. That was the same company. There was a big uproar and a different company was chosen.
@@5hiftyL1v3a thats the national holocaust memorial in berlin near the reichstag (seat of the german parliament)
Great info thx
@@5hiftyL1v3a thx for that info....the irony of it!
Father of Agent Orange?
To be fair nearly every company got war contracts on all sides.
Yeah but they only demonize the ones that worked for the side that lost.
It's No Use - Yours will be a stillborn History is written by the victors
Avenicio Abeyta dont forget the secind most important thing, war crimes doesn’t exist
@@itsnouse-yourswillbeastill2562 This mostly seems to point not not the ones that worked for 'the side the lost' but rather ones that knowingly took full advantage of slave labor. Hell, many companies in the U.S. TODAY do this (ie prison labor).
"Slave labor" is not a light thing, and reality was far worse than the words seem to convey. It was hellish abuse, zero rights, zero pay, long hours, barely any food, no communication with anyone on the outside, beatings, threats of a violent death...and many did indeed die. Come on now. In that aspect IG Farben and Bayer take the first prize in infamy.
Moral of the story: most large companies are evil as fuck but almost never get held accountable.
You just described many politicians. Especially Democrats.
@@BA-gn3qb I don't really think there's an especially there have been some pretty fucked up and evil republicans too ex: all these people praising Putin during this current event
@@michaelmayo2489 - Thanks for agreeing with me.
Can’t believe you missed our Siemens…. They tendered for a contract to build a very specific type of furnace, one capable of burning multiple bodies… they knew exactly what they were tendering for.
surprised you didn't mention coca cola inventing Fanta for Germany during the war because it couldn't access coke materials
That's not being shady though
That's doing what you can with what you have
If anything, that's commendable
verysilentmouse you don’t understand, it was the German subsidiary of Coca Cola that could no longer access shipments of syrup, so they improvised. American Coca Cola didn’t do it for them
Thats just them being nice who doesnt like soda
@@Kardia_of_Rhodes if anything. It's good. Giving diabetes to the wehrmacht
It was an independent contractor and I'm pretty sure he joined the party because he didn't have much choice.
Not gonna lie, the first thing I thought of when I saw the title for this video was Ford. Mostly because I live in the same city as its HQ.
No wonder the German WW2 uniforms looked so good, they were made by Hugo Boss!
Don’t forget IBM whose machines helped the concentration camps run more effectively and efficiently. They even supplied mechanics to help fix the machines when the went down
General Motors owned an aircraft company, whose lend-lease aircraft were used to bomb Helsinki.
www.stara.fi/2017/08/07/helsingin-pysayttavat-pommituskuvat-helsingin-kahdet-kasvot/
11:48 oh, you mean the company that cant figure out how to run the plant near my house without something exploding at least once a year
That’s Rex Tillerson for ya
0:05 me and the boys wearing our *hugoboss* clothes
Seems Many of these companies were playing both sides..all for that mighty dollar.
Damn Greed is the down fall of Man
The Swedish export to Germany of iron ore made the Wallenberg financial family very rich
Mate, thank you for this video. Kudos to you and keep fighting the good fight.
Hugo Boss: The Final Solution! In Fashion
IBM lowkey indirectly 100% responsible for the scale of the holocaust
This video should just be titled "The military industrial complex of WWII." Same shit is still happening today.
When I was very young in the mid "50's I remember the TV announcement each week that a shipment of Camel cigarettes were being sent to veteran's hospitals. Douglas Edwards of CBS News made the announcements. At that time the health hazards from smoking were not well known. So the cigarette companies possibly unwittingly contributed to the deaths of many wounded veterans.
There's a lot of evidence to show the companies were well aware of the health effects for decades before the public found out. Smoking had been encouraged during WW1 as a way to help calm troops, and the same was tried in ww2. Long term effects weren't in the national interest of combatants at that point.
They knew.
Do you eat sugar? Do give it to people that you care about? Do you know how many health effects and deaths are caused by sugar each year? Sound silly doesn't it? Until you educate yourself about the real numbers. How about alcohol. Should we go into that too?
So we should hate companies for their activities 80 years ago? Thats like hating a person because you dont like their grandfather.
True.
Nah i wouldn't make that comparison. Companies arent people and the money they made back then garnered intrest overtime and allowed them to continue growing. Obviously you dont blame the people currently working there especially if they were born after ww2 but you can absolutely call out the company for going along with forced labor. But if we're going by that standard we should also call out companies like walmart which get most of their cheap stuff made by chinese factory laborers
So you expect us to forgive a company like volks wagon “the peoples car” a company witch attributed to millions of deaths and is responsible for deaths in my family. Do you think that they should profit off these acts of hate which many forget about ?
They profited off of a terrible government and some have yet to apologize or pay reparations.
@@luked2115 The government pays reperation not the companies and all former axis powers pay reperations so stop talking out of your ass.
This video: only shows german companies
Japanease companies: are we a joke to you
Italian companies: *discreet whistling*
JDM >>>>>> jews
Good ole Nestlé keeping the dream alive even to this day! 😂
2:10 you got any sources on that one? Because Maggi only became part of Nestlé in 1947 and, at least in switzerland, there certainly weren't any forced labourers from concentration camps
@Dylan Vaccariello-Noall Why does him questioning something automatically make him a neonazi
@Dylan Vaccariello-Noall Ah yes, asking for sources is such a nazi thing to do...
@Dylan Vaccariello-Noall liking tanks doesn't make you a Nazi lmao
Dylan Vaccariello-Noall He didn’t question that the nazis used forced laborers. He questioned the claim that forced laborers from concentration camps were used in Switzerland.
Dylan Vaccariello-Noall Panzer literally means tank in German not a specific nazi word or anything. Considering he probably speaks a form of German in his daily life he could just love Swiss tanks or American ones who cares. The point is that not everything that is German is nazi. And yeah as stated by other people he was just asking for the source of forced labour concentration camps in Switzerland. Nothing he said or how he is named makes him a nazi
I really like this video, but you should add more text. I want to see for example names of the people.
We'll take that into consideration. Thanks!
What opened my eyes to what a racket war is, was when I read the cost of military equipment. When a B-17 bomber cost the equivalent of $2.7 million each... and 12,000 were made. Where did all the money go?
Remember when you watch footage of WW1 and WW2, every shell, bullet, uniform and rifle you see wasn’t provided free of charge. Some corporation sold that.
“I don't need your civil war. It feeds the rich while it buries the poor” Guns N’ Roses
funny enough, all these photos you're displaying were probably shot with a kodak lol
Probably not. There where Leica, Minox, Zeiss, Speed Graphic, Argus, Rollei, Ensign, and many others.
The 4 dislikes are from the boss family, coca cola, ibm, and the Bush's....
Oh no our guy Epstein'd.
I'll probably catch some serious flak for it, but the German uniforms were pretty on point.
That they are
It would have taken a Hugo Boss to design them.
Nah they're pretty sharp, honestly. You can't say they didn't look cool.
Nobody:
Tobacco Companies: "You wanna buy some deathsticks ?"
You don't want to sell me deathsticks
I dont want to sell you death sticks
@@metalmusic4958 you want to go home and rethink your life
@@Sumschmuck I want to go home and rethink my life
Tobacco being sent to soldiers to this day is a great thing. Its a huge moral boost
Companies involved in shady stuff to earn money? I'm shocked. Also producing military equipment is not a warcrime in my eyes.
The warcrime would be using Prisonner of War and Slave labor.
Thanks a lot for pointing out what needed to be but who could really mark corporate guilt in war or any time. Oh and by the way, cigarette companies should just feel guilty for existing
As a smoker I'm positive the smokes given out to the men were greatly appreciated and no doubt played a part in keeping those men in the fight !
Cigarette companies shouldn't get any flak for what they did. Like you said, at the time smoking was practically encouraged. Smokes were a treat for soldiers, a morale booster, and a stress reliever in unbelievably stressful situations. Also they were occasionaly used for bartering and gifts among allied soldiers
I got REAL nervous when you mentioned the Dow chemical company
Nestle in the thumbnail told me all I need to know about this video, I try to avoid nestle products as much as possible but its hard they own stuff in everything
Would not be surprised if in some dystopian future they get into arms production and take over the whole planet. Not that far off already anyway .-.
smokes are really good for relieving stress, which soldiers were under a lot.. so I don't think it's a bad thing they were supplying them with it.
3 on a match is bad luck, ask the first 2 vets, who survived the war.
Thanks for the further info on these companies. I realize that my boycotting doesn't affect the machine, but I continue to do so regardless. I suppose that I try to go through life not really waning to know about these sorts of issues, but at the same time I MUST know. I firmly believe that morals and ethics are far more important than the laws that lobbyists and lawyers for these corporations manipulate daily. It appears to me that to live in this world one must turn a blind eye to "keep up with the Jones's" and such, so I decided long ago that I have no desire to play, and will not once I am confronted with the knowledge of the dastardly deeds imposed upon "life"kind. The shady, unethical, and immoral business practices of corporations just wreck my soul. It is difficult for me to accept that we, even though fully aware, continue to support these soulless companies that made their fortunes and continue to dominate the landscape and their fortunes, by inflicting horrific damage to animals, humans, and to the only planet (for now) where we are able to thrive and exist. Not the first time that I've commented on this subject matter. I've received a bit of crap (obviously) in the past by those who state that this world would not be where it is were it not for companies and the tech that we are all accustom to. I do take advantage of the internet as I am disabled and this has to do in order for me to visit the world, and I am grateful for this. However, I also firmly believe that we do not "need" the so, very many crappy, cheap, useless, and pollutant items that are manufactured in order to live well with morals, and ethics in as reasonably as possible in tact. As I always have, I live simply. We are not a material world as much as we are a throw away world. Bigger, faster, harder, new, more, more, more... If it stops working (which it will, way too soon) Just go out and feed the machine and buy a new one. After all the product was never meant to last. And there must be more parcels of undesired land to fill and pollute with refuse ? What is the idiom ? He who dies with the most toys wins ? What exactly does he win ? To me less is most definitely more.
Bet that these brands also made content creators on youtube platform lost their profits
Yep. "Citizens" united.
Cigarettes were a very important to the men on the frontlines when ur stressed out u need a smoke!!!
Im not a smoker, but i can see. They just need a bunch of happy soldiers (morale)
Garrison Nichols Ewwwww
@@drsipp407 you say that now but if you got thrown into combat tomorrow you would probably end up smoking a cig because everyone is stressed out and on edge and that's the only thing to help take the edge off
@@thorOdinson-qd6yn We can smell the smoker writing. Cigarettes calm you as you are ADDICTED to them. The companies make sure you get addicted in fact, so now you get your fix and hence it calms you down. How smart. If most soldiers already smoked, yes it made sense to provide cigarettes for them instead of them being even more wired, but by doing so I'm sure many new addicts were created. And one thing both nicotine and the smoke do, is calm hunger, another war time commonality. But don't sugarcoat it for your own "needs". And many soldiers have been spotted and killed because they smoked in the night...
Soldiers figured they could die any time and a smoke is relaxing. The dangers of smoking were well known. That is why they called them coffin nails among other things. And yes I smoked for 25 years and then just quit,just got tired of them.
Imagine a food company trying to deal with over population
You forgot the most shaddy, Porsche and Krupp, Henschel, Mercedes...
Some it is different I think, with Mercedes for example they were essentially forced into providing work for the regime. There was no other major manufacturer of reliable trucks and engines so the Nazis used them for this. They didn't even produce regular cars during this era, I'm sure Hitler was using them as a power symbol as well. But I'd love to know if they actually were happy about this business
@@mpkp2011 "Starting in 1941, Daimler-Benz began using Soviet and French POWs as forced labor. Those who refused to work were sent to concentration camps. By 1943, Daimler-Benz used thousands of Jewish concentration camp worker-slaves to build the weapons of the Nazi war machine. ... ."
@@mpkp2011 According to the book Mercedes In Peace and War, written by Bernard Bellon, the Daimler-Benz Company (makers of Mercedes cars) had a close relationship with the Third Reich. The official company line was that “Daimler-Benz supported the National Socialist regime only to an unavoidable extent for a company of its importance.” But after Daimler-Benz opened its archives in 1986, Bellon uncovered a wealth of information about Daimler-Benz’s military-industrial connection to the Nazi party.
Bellon writes: “Leading managers of Daimler-Benz lent valuable assistance to the National Socialists before Hitler became Chancellor in 1933.” Daimler-Benz took out large advertisements in the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter known for its anti-Semitic propaganda. Once Hitler gained power, Daimler-Benz provided cars to party officials. Hitler typically rode in Mercedes vehicles and was a close friend with Jakob Werlin, associate director of Daimler-Benz. Hitler also owned a portfolio of Daimler-Benz stock administered by Werlin.
@@mpkp2011 Hitler and Mussolini got into power supported by the Industrials, specially automakers, who tended to have a Fascist incline, including Ford and GM
@@josearaujo8616 that is really really interesting thank you for this info! I tried looking but couldn't find much. I would have assumed that they were simply going along with it out of fear but I guess that's a present mindset with all the atrocious acts being common knowledge. Again thank you
I love you to see you do the same thing with the Japanese. Specially with all the trading the United States companies did.
That intro still gets me almost a year and a half later
HUGO BOSS did nothing wrong. They designed SICK ASS uniforms
Back when Mercedes Benz owned Chrysler they ran an ad for Jeep showing them coming ashore in Europe which I thought was pretty funny for a German company.
As far as cigarettes inclusion, well you are thinking about the total life of the soldier... Germany had in fact realized that smoking could be directly linked to cancer and heart disease, as a result the Nazis made a concerted push to stamp out smoking altoghether...
On the other hand places like the US cared about morale... Most men smoked at the time. The only reliable way to get them cigarettes was in rations. Therefore a happy soldier had cigarettes, the military wanted happy soldiers... Same goes for alcohol to a more controlled extant as well. Whether you think morals outweigh morale is whether supplying tobacco and alcohol was a good policy, than and now...
Don't forget the meth.
@@rodafowa1279 Ah yes definitely dont forget about Hans taking a fat one before charging into the enemy.
just goes to show the evil at the core of capitalistic businesses.
True, but then again we have to remember:
The more power you have, the more responsibility you have
Yes, the things they do and take may not be ethical but they also have a lot of lives and income at stake and also the things we take for granted
The worst crimes came from good intentions
The only way to curb unethical businesses is to instill curious mindset upon the world populace, or else the world will just become puppets
And also, to give out ideas so that decision makers can make a better option
Good thing communism beat the capitalist fascist dogs for only the low low price of statistics, lots and lots of statistics.
@@justiron2999 to be fair, no matter what ideology you have, those who ran the nation is the one that will decide if you live a much easier or harder life...
@@TheCat48488 Yeah that's fair. Jokes aside we can only judge now because we weren't in that time but others will judge our action after our time.
@@justiron2999 yeah, time is your greatest friend, and enemy...😉
Corporations should’ve been held accountable.
My dad joined the Navy right out of high school in 37 and started smoking. He served 20 years active duty including the Pacific war and Korea as a Navy Corpsman/Medic. When was 55 and I was 9 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died when he was 73. I place 100% of the blame on whoever thought it was a good idea to give the men and women ciggs for free.
This must be remembered
"War is a racket."
*"I was a business man, doing business."*
I’m from the Houston area and I’m so happy you included the little known DOW story!
Fiat made aircrafts for the Italian Air Force during the Second World War
Interesting video. You did a good job on this complex topic.
no, not really
Shows the military industrial complex existed long before Eisenhower’s warning.
No, Tobacco companies don’t deserve the “Shady stamp” because they supplied troops with cigarettes. Smoking was extremely common back then and most people didn’t know or understood how bad it was for your health. Even if they did, I doubt a GI in a hole, on Christmas eve 1944, somewhere in the Ardennes, would have cared if the cigarettes he was smoking would give him cancer 20yrs from then.
I don’t know what’re on about- Hugo boss gave us some of the sexist uniforms of all time.
Sorry not forgetting. "Those that forget are doomed to repeat it"
War also never changes.
@@shaider1982 it’s constantly changing, we used to fight with stones and sticks, then with swords and spears, then with rows of men armed with muskets standing in formation, then to trench warfare, not to mention the implementation of aircraft’s, and nuclear weapons, biological warfare, etc...
Those who do not forget it or learn from it, are doomed to be dragged through repeating it, by the rest of the tide.
The numbers tattooed into the victims of the Holocaust were meant to be inputted into ibm machines for efficiency, I think that would’ve been a great detail to include
It's a good thing Nestle doesn't do anything shady any more, like exploiting child slavery in Africa... still to this day.
I was like, wait I recoqnize this guy's voice. Is it like Wendover or something? No it's goddamn Geetslys.
japan just wouldnt apologize to china for what theyve done to them.
while germany tried their best to do every country that theyve harmed a favour.
Tell that to the Greeks!
Honestly, if this creates some kind of guilt for these companies. MOST companies today should feel exactly the same way for doing business with the Chinese.
Just as every businessman said: "Business is business."
If you have a hard on for forced labor, boy do I have a sell for you: Communist China...
You gotta really play that "Chuh".
"Chuh-iena"
You are so underated I love your videos
I'll take that. Thank you
In regards to the collaboration of Channel, what a lot of people don't necessarily realize is that before the start of WWII, France was a deeply divided country and would have likely descended in to civil war like Spain within the next few years if the Germans hadn't invaded. There were quite a lot of fascists and fascist sympathizers in France at the time (and the same for communists). It's also worth noting that fascism as a political movement didn't have the same taboos associated with it before WWII as it does now (you know, because the atrocities hadn't happened yet...).
Lol, Most companies profit from war even today.
2:07
Concentration camps in switzerland?
Yes, a perfectly researched little documentary...
Yes actually. They weren't so much "concentration" camps as they were "internment" camps and POW camps. Though they were neutral, the Swiss government operated several different camps that held allied and axis internees alike, from nearly every country partaking in the European theatre. Not many people realize this.
@@bushpilot223 you do know there is a hughe difference between a POW/Military Prison and a concentration camp right?
Concentration camps like in USA?
@@Pectopah123 no, there were none in switzerland
Amazing video and good information. Keep your work going, love it.
Thank you
4:56 This man just said "hitler had a kodak moment" issa kodak moment
It's nothing personal, jack. It's just good business
Hugo Boss never designed uniforms they only manufactured. This video needs to be featured on r/badhistory
IBM: Let's just work with Nazi's, great idea kids!
@scooty470 You know I'm just memeing right? Also, even with the historical context of the time and lack of Hindsight, the Nazi's were still very discriminatory and had harsh policies even in the early stages so working with them was still bad.
@scooty470 BRUH, it is IBM, a U.S. corporation, not any individual person. Lmao
@scooty470 Staying ignorant is easy for some.
@scooty470 Then why did you reply to my comment? the comment was about IBM...
@scooty470 I gave you the nuance already even though I was memeing...
Glad you included Ford ! 👍🏽
Im Just here for the Nestle pronunciation comments
Watch out The Front you might be hitting a nerve of some die hard brand fanboys.
@@bravomike4734 Not "die hard" the movie. He means hard-core fanboys
I smell a new series for this channel 👌
There is a saying that there is no sentiment in business.
The truth of that is made obvious in this excellent presentation.
You missed 2 big ones probably the biggest. The Krupp industrial dynasty and Bayer. Makes you want to see which coffee machine is being used at your local cafe and whats i your medicine cabinet.
i found this channel and geetsly independantly and only now made the connection lol
I think cigarettes were fine during ww2
Gives Kodak moment a whole new meaning
You have to admit though. Hugo Boss made some killer ass military uniforms.