NAZI DUPLICITY
FORD SUBSIDIARY MISUSED SECRET PRODUCTION OF ARMAMENTS ((Rec. 11 a.m.) BERLIN, Dec. 27. The production of armaments by a German subsdiary of the American Ford Motor Company for Avar purposes Avas concealed from British and American interests in the firm by the floating of a further subsidiary company under another name, states a report by investigating officers of the British and American occupation authorities. The subsidiary before the war placed much of its imported raw material at the disposal of the Nazi Ministry of Economics. The subsidiary also by various means made considerable amounts of foreign exchange available to the Nazis, and actually established a special war plant on orders from the German High Command. The Ford plants in Germany in 1942 produced nearly 20 per cent, of the Wehrraacht’s trucks, 500 motors .for boatß and landing barges, .and 20,000 gears for one Junkers aircraft plant.
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Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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148NAZI DUPLICITY Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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