Unfortunately, i think it was not entirely a cautionary tale. I think many of them went on to (continue to) lead their companies for years after the war.
Unfortunately, i think it was not entirely a cautionary tale. I think many of them went on to (continue to) lead their companies for years after the war.
There was a "funny" Mercedes commercial some years back celebrating their history as a company. For some odd reason, the years 1933-1945 were completely absent from their hagiography.
As did many of the judges who handed out draconian sentences for the Nazis. It took until the Auschwitz Trial in the early 1960s for many people to be confronted by the horrors committed by their neighbors against their neighbors. And even then, the "ideology" was not eradicated. It is alive and well in the AFD (Alternative For Deutschland) party today.
A big scandal has finally surfaced when an investigative group filmed a radical right wing group hosting some AFD members in a rented mansion for a discussion of "Remigration". To them that is code for deportation of not only illegal immigrants, or those refused immigrant status, but also people who have, in their words, obtained Germany citizenshiip as an immigrant by improper means (whatever that will mean). Finally many "normal" citizens are waking up and demonstrations have been occurring in many large cities throughout Germany (one is occurring in Frankfurt tomorrow, affirmatively protesting for Democracy.
Unfortunately, i think it was not entirely a cautionary tale. I think many of them went on to (continue to) lead their companies for years after the war.
There was a "funny" Mercedes commercial some years back celebrating their history as a company. For some odd reason, the years 1933-1945 were completely absent from their hagiography.
As did many of the judges who handed out draconian sentences for the Nazis. It took until the Auschwitz Trial in the early 1960s for many people to be confronted by the horrors committed by their neighbors against their neighbors. And even then, the "ideology" was not eradicated. It is alive and well in the AFD (Alternative For Deutschland) party today.
A big scandal has finally surfaced when an investigative group filmed a radical right wing group hosting some AFD members in a rented mansion for a discussion of "Remigration". To them that is code for deportation of not only illegal immigrants, or those refused immigrant status, but also people who have, in their words, obtained Germany citizenshiip as an immigrant by improper means (whatever that will mean). Finally many "normal" citizens are waking up and demonstrations have been occurring in many large cities throughout Germany (one is occurring in Frankfurt tomorrow, affirmatively protesting for Democracy.
And Dimon would ask you to be more respectful of them.
To which I say, people in hell want ice water, too.
"Oh well.Never mind" * Emily Litela