10 Global Businesses that Worked With the Nazis

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2. BMW

BMW has admitted using up to 30,000 forced laborers during the war.

Those POWs, slave laborers and inmates of concentration camps produced engines for the Luftwaffe and so were forced to aid the regime in defending itself against those who were trying to save them.

BMW focused solely on aircraft and motorcycle manufacture during the war, with no pretense of being anything other than a supplier of war machinery to the Nazis.

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2. BMW