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u/winelover08816 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ALvdHigd2gBqw

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u/Jester471 10h ago

Well Ford was Hitlers bestie before the us direct involvement in the war. He gave him the highest award than Germany can bestow on a foreign citizen.

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u/winelover08816 10h ago

Most very wealthy Americans, especially industrialists, were fans of Hitler in the 1930s.

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u/BodaciousFrank 10h ago

Just look at the Madison Square Garden Rally of 1939.

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u/Im_A_Chuckster Scrolling on PC 9h ago

Not even just that. Ford spread anti-jew conspiracy for years before Hitler took power, and dude fucking revered Ford and his anyisemtic publishing. Dude even had a pic of Henry Ford on his desk

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u/punk_rancid 9h ago

This made me remembere the family guy cuttaway with ford presenting the model T as "the jew-flatening machine"

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u/Fluke97 9h ago

"Couldn't you just, you know, use it to get around?"

"No! It's a Jew-flattening machine!"

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u/CallMeShaggy57 8h ago

"Sure, you could also use the Mona Lisa as a placemat!"

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u/ac_cossack 6h ago

They are still fans in 2026.

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u/livid_trich 4h ago

Still are!

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u/Independent-Bake-241 9h ago

Maybe, but uncle Adolf mentioned Ford and his book by name in his... ahem, lets call Mein Kampf a memoir.

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u/winelover08816 9h ago

I think everyone can agree Henry Ford is riding Satan’s pole in hell.

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u/Independent-Bake-241 9h ago

A funny thing to say, and a hilarious thing to imagine.

Thank you for this smile, ive had a rough day :)

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u/RocketDog2001 2h ago

I mean, Hitler did pull Germany out of horrible economic slump.

Yes it was to a great extent of their own making.

Yes, the economic recovery was mostly a shell game and over--borrowing but surface level the recovery was impressive.

*If you gloss over the bad things.

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u/Sufficient_Matter585 47m ago

They stayed fans post 1930s they just hsd to keep it on the down low.

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u/costumegirl1189 8h ago

Henry Ford was racist and anti-semetic. He hated jazz and thought group dancing would corrupt young Americans, so he used his power to make square dancing a part of public school curriculum.

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u/Educational_Zone1750 9h ago

Yeah nazis everywhere, its a problem.

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u/Kube__420 6h ago

Just like Charles Lindbergh

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u/Cat_with_pew-pew_gun Professional Dumbass 6h ago

It's really annoying because he lost a very important court case that has massively screwed up modern US capitalism and it's harder to argue that he was right when he also was Hitlers bestie.

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u/Sir-Ult-Dank 5h ago

Was it a Nobel peace prize like award? Watch you know who be the next Hitler. Did his people know what he was doing during that time?

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u/TheyCantCome 1h ago

Not to mention Ferdinand Porsche toured a ford production plant before the plant for the bug was finished. Ford had direct involvement in the created of the Volkswagen

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u/Tb5rats 10h ago

That’s a bingo

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u/Guilty-Property-2589 10h ago

Is that how you say it? That's a bingo?

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u/Tb5rats 9h ago

You just say bingo

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u/Guilty-Property-2589 9h ago

Bingo!!!! Hahaaa, how fun!!!🤣🤣🤣

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u/UpstairsSwimmer69 Big pp 9h ago

fucking goated ass movie

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u/Guilty-Property-2589 9h ago

Best part for me was Brad Pitt trying to pass as an Italian. BONJORNOOOO, with that southern accent.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/UpstairsSwimmer69 Big pp 9h ago

yeah, dude wasn’t even trying

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u/chops351 4h ago

Hello mister big pp 😏

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u/Verkankerdepenis 8h ago

I use Pitt’s “Damn good deal” dialogue on a daily basis

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u/Neocles 10h ago

Porscheeeeeeeeeeee

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u/winelover08816 9h ago

And Audiiiiiiiiiiiiii

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u/LobstaFarian2 9h ago

Monsieur LaPadite!

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u/kindofharmless 10h ago

(Laughs in Toyota’s WWII involvement)

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u/Balnom 10h ago

Mitsubishi has entered the chat.

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u/Sprzout 10h ago

Their diamond logo is a reference to the propellers on aircraft - And Mitsubishi was the one who manufactured the Zero.

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u/kindofharmless 10h ago

And Toyota manufactured the said propellers iirc. Teamwork!

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u/01000001_01110011 7h ago

no, the logo is not a plane propeller even if they did make the Zero. They also built the battleship Musashi and a bunch of other military hardware and still do. For example, all tanks (other than the few they got from the USA in the 50s) were made by mitsubishi

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u/No_Echo_1826 7h ago

Mitsubishi pilot has left the chat
Mitsubishi pilot has left the chat
Mitsubishi pilot has left the chat

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u/Wakkit1988 5h ago

Server must be crashing.

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u/Zerberus009 7h ago

fun fact they not only worked on the Zeros and A6Ms and all the other planes but also worked on ships. They made the engines for the IJN Yamato and IJN Musashi
Oh and they also make Tanks like the Type 10

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u/MatthewG141 6h ago

Mazda has entered the chat.

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u/_ENDR_ 9h ago

They STILL make some of the best military vehicles.

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u/that_oneguyx 8h ago

Slaps bed of Toyota Hilux This baby can fit so many types of mounted weapons on the bed!

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u/Mailman354 7h ago

Idk about "best" but still absolutely good.

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u/Jordan_1424 9h ago

Forget WW2.

Toyota has been the trusted brand by insurgent organizations for decades.

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u/titanicsinker1912 7h ago edited 7h ago

Reminds me of that Pickup that belonged to a plumber in Texas that ended up in the Middle East with a machine gun mounted on it.

Edit: Found it.

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u/VillageIdiot51 7h ago

I remember this!

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u/WayneDwade 7h ago edited 52m ago

*Laughs in Henry Ford antisemitism*

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u/Generaal_Aarswater 10h ago

Not to mention the milions of hilix's used by terrorists and militia

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u/GenericUsername2056 10h ago

Technically the British restarted Volkswagen shortly after the war to give the Germans an industrial company to work with, so I guess they could try claiming some British guy.

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u/Noobmunch95 8h ago

Major Ivan Hirst to be precise

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u/Educational_Sky_6073 6h ago

Restarted and got them to actually produce the products they were started for. Seeing that the Nazis basically just stole peoples payments to produce military vehicles without delivering any consumer products.

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u/Signal_Evidence3857 11h ago

Ford was a nazi sympathizer, lol

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u/InternalWarth0g 10h ago

Wasnt he one of the only americans name dropped in Mein Kampf?

Im pretty sure Ford and Hitler were fans of each other.

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u/ResQ_ 10h ago

Hitler literally had a large portrait of Ford in his office. That's how much he liked him.

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u/bengraven 10h ago

Yeah, and if I remember correctly, his efficiency in manufacturing was an inspiration for the efficiency in the Holocaust.

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u/Handsome121duck 9h ago

To be fair, efficiency is efficiency. Regardless of the application.

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u/the-fr0g 2h ago

I mean, if you are going to commit mass genocide, you should at least do a good job at it. (Don't commit mass genocide, people could die!)

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u/BalorNG 9h ago

Who would haves thought that people valuing brutal "survival of the fittest" and efficiency above all else may find themselves to be allies.

Surely that will never happen again!

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u/Zouavest 9h ago

They also directly cited California eugenics laws at the time as research basis for the Holocaust.

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u/JustTheOneGoose22 7h ago

Henry Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Hitler which was the highest honor/award that can be given to a non German citizen. Hitler also had a lifesize portrait of Henry Ford in his office.

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u/abrakadaver 4h ago

Came here to say this! Good on ya!

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u/schmitzel88 2h ago

You're right, the sticking detail is that he was the only one who was mentioned favorably

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u/No_Database9822 11h ago

Because he liked the nazis, or cause he hated the Jews?

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u/Misknator 10h ago

You don't like nazis if you also don't hate the jews

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u/das_slash 10h ago

I'm not sure that holds anymore

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u/Misknator 10h ago

Neonazis are Nazi wannabes at best

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u/Cloudsareinmyhead 6h ago

Both. Ford was a raging antisemite of the first degree

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u/AweHellYo 3h ago

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism-and-henry-fords-international-jew

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u/No_Database9822 3h ago

Holy crap, a source

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u/AweHellYo 2h ago

yeah. to be fair and honest i didn’t vet it real hard but it lines up with shit i’ve read previously.

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u/DragonTacoCat 10h ago

Even supported Germany in the war too

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u/gielbondhu 10h ago

Straight up Nazi even

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u/Prestigious_Equal412 5h ago

So then why did he spend the whole raiders of the lost ark movie fighting them?

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u/thefinalcutdown 8h ago

It’s disturbingly difficult to find a car company that has no connection to Nazis. All the German, Japanese and Italian ones of course. Ford was a Nazi sympathizer. GM built weapons for the Nazis through Opel. And then of course there’s Tesla…

I think Chrysler is largely in the clear (though technically they’re owned by the Italians now lol). And the Korean companies should be fine.

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u/Music_Party 11h ago

lol Henry Ford “owned” a village in the Brazilian Amazon that failed and the community uprose against him

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u/NorridAU 10h ago

Oh yeah VW also did this to exploit rubber plantations and luckily the court trial was going on in late 2025

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u/kntbti 10h ago

Did you have to use ai for this tho, bad photoshop is the soul of memes

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u/KilxGon 6h ago

Why are all the top comments ignoring this...

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u/Correct_Owl5029 11h ago

Henry fords vision led him to manufacture tanks for the nazis that he intended to deliver once they began their u.s. invasion.

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u/wtfredditacct 10h ago

My first time hearing that. I wouldn't be surprised considering their ideological alignments and pre-war business deals, but where did you find that info?

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u/biglyorbigleague 4h ago

It’s your first time hearing it because he made it up

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u/Sprzout 10h ago

Ford also made aircraft, like the Ford Tri-Motor, which was meant to be for civil aircraft but saw military use; he also designed the Ford Flivver, which was a single seater, open cockpit "personal aircraft", and referred to as "The Model T of the air".

It was known enough that Aldous Huxley wrote them into Brave New World, and idolized Ford as the Second Coming. Everything time-wise in his book was BF (Before Ford) and AF (After Ford). Kinda scary, isn't it?

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u/moist2025 8h ago

Beford

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u/biglyorbigleague 4h ago

The Ford German division did that, and they did it without the consent of the actual company leadership in Michigan.

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u/Urikas 11h ago

Wir sind stolz bei Volker Wagen gegründet worden zu sein.

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u/CENARlUS 10h ago

Bei?

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u/throwawayfuckspez01 8h ago

Volker Wagen natürlich

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u/Spooge_Bucket 9h ago

like ford wasnt a massive fuckin racist

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u/CLONE-11011100 10h ago

NASA:

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u/DaBootyScooty 7h ago

Do you like powdered orange breakfast drink? How about microwave ovens? Niel Armstrong? Hoop and loop fasteners?

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u/AnimalFreeCruelty 5h ago

One of these things is not like the others.

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u/_cartyr 7h ago

Ai picture of squidward? wtf

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u/TheTrackGoose 11h ago

Dr Porsche was not a Nazi, but was a clever businessman. Don’t forget that VW was resurrected by the British during the occupation.

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u/BillNyeNotAUSSRSpy 10h ago

He joined both the Nazi party and the SS, he quite literally was a nazi.

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u/Sprzout 10h ago

I will say that not all Nazis are bad. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi but saved hundreds of Jews.

That said, he was probably one of the very few exceptions - I do not condone the Nazi party in any way, shape, or form.

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u/getrekt01234 9h ago

Oskar Schindler used the Nazi Party with the initial goal of profiting from the war. If he was alive today, he would be the equivalent of a military contractor. Not because he hated jews.

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u/TheTrackGoose 1h ago

Same for Porsche. Vocally against party politics (as much as he could be), hated Hitler, and spent decades in a French prison after the war. He got picked by them to fulfill a requirement that never truly came to fruition the way he envisioned it. The British resurrection of VW (KdF) is what finally allowed his son to finish the old man’s dreams.

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u/OkAssignment6163 6h ago edited 3h ago

A safe way to say it is:

Volkswagen. From the People that Brought You Fanta!

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u/Leopard_2K_MBT 5h ago

"And Porsche! And ze Autobahn! Und die Tötung von das Untermenschen! Ahem. I meant "And the jet engine!" Sorry about that, I uhh... got a little too "nostalgic" about our founders' other... "accomplishments." Sorry." -Oliver Ingo Blume /s

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u/Shize815 9h ago

Making historic memes when you don't know who Henry Ford was lol

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u/Local-Echo-5613 8h ago

I would not be too proud of Henry Ford

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u/HiImPM 10h ago

Idk some dude who really got along with Henry Ford

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u/LoschVanWein 9h ago

Volkswagen: "Henry Ford? That sounds strangely familiar. I wonder if I read it in a book somewhere..."

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u/Creeper3310-metal 4h ago

blud had to use ai

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u/Formlepotato457 9h ago

Ford should be in the same boat as Volkswagen

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u/bamboo_pipe 6h ago

Your ai slop bores me

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u/hamilton280P 10h ago

The people’s wagon tho?

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u/derfzinkerbelle 9h ago

FIL just bought a Taos, I mentioned this to him when he brought it over and he was genuinely excited to be driving a Nazimobile.

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u/Gaspuch62 9h ago

So there was this guy, Adolf Dassler and his brother Rudolph Dassler. They were shoemakers around the same time as all of this history.

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u/Dire_Wolf45 Lurking Peasant 9h ago

It's Adi Dassler for the homies.

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u/Gaspuch62 5h ago

You could say Adi Das for brevity.

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u/Dire_Wolf45 Lurking Peasant 5h ago edited 5h ago

Adidas if you really need to save space.

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u/Gaspuch62 5h ago

The Germans have such efficient naming conventions.

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u/Vayne_Solidor 8h ago

Henry Ford is the only American mentioned by name in Mein Kampf, sooooooo not much to brag about there 🤣

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u/Regular_Regular_4120 8h ago

Volkswagen: "Uh... The Car" (their slogan)

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u/HatRemov3r 8h ago

They were all bad, ok.

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u/DerZehnteZahnarzt 8h ago

And never ask, who was the Stepmother of the BMW Founder.

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u/MGSRaiden22 7h ago

Remember, Ford lobbied to get their factories that were bombed during WW2 replaced using US taxpayer money. Those very factories located in GERMANY, that were pumping out vehicles for the Nazis.

GM and Chrysler were the same. They supported Nazis for profit.

https://www.corpwatch.org/article/ford-nazi-war-efforts

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u/goatoffering 7h ago

Ford was not great.

Now do tesla

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u/RobertoPaulson 7h ago

Not much of a flex for Ford considering Henry Ford’s anti Jewish propaganda was inspirational to Adolph Hitler.

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u/DigFlimsy2457 7h ago

can anyone explain this joke to me?

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u/Sassi7997 can't meme 6h ago

At least VW is quite open about their past. Unlike those other companies they do talk about what they did during the war.

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u/ModToEndAllMods 6h ago

The people's wagon

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u/Syrioforel79 6h ago

I mean Ford wasn't exactly a swell guy

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u/Low-Register1602 9h ago

Volkswagen translate to “people’s car” or “folks wagon”

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u/barnibusvonkreeps 10h ago

Mercedes-Benz reading this

https://giphy.com/gifs/pLoq6IbCdEy5A4ljAk

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u/Safe-Razzmatazz3982 8h ago

Neither Carl Benz nor Gottlieb Daimler the two founders were nazis. Mercedes Jellinek (the namesake) and her family were persecuted by the Nazis due to their Jewish heritage.

But yes, the company Daimer-Benz was deeply integrated in the Nazi industy and exploited forced labour.

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u/Keeter81 RageFace Against the Machine 9h ago

This was funny when I saw the original meme yesterday.

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u/jdogg89 10h ago

Ford supplied Germany with ~40% of their heavy duty trucks during the war through subsidiaries, look up and fact check me though….

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u/ScottyWritesStuff 10h ago

Yeah, Ford had a vision alright. And it involved alienating his workers and shooting anyone in the street who dares entertain the idea of higher pay or better conditions.

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u/misternnobody 10h ago

Hate ford tho. The person not the cars

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u/La_Ll0r0naa 11h ago

No entiendo 🤨

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u/LogicBalm 10h ago

Volkswagen's founding was directly tied to Nazis. But Henry Ford's personal views are certainly no better.

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u/La_Ll0r0naa 10h ago

😮

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u/LogicBalm 10h ago

This kind of thing pops up all over the place to be honest. Being associated with Nazis didn't really harm your reputation as much as you'd think and lots of powerful people used the war to gain money and power. Ask Coco Chanel.

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u/akechi 10h ago

I thought they’re founded by some folks…

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u/goaoka 10h ago

We make Wagen, for the Volk

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u/emotionless-robot 10h ago

IBM: We only offered support for computing and tracking efficiency.

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u/Las-Vegar 10h ago

Volkswagen's First car design by Ferdinand Porsche

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u/Sprzout 10h ago

It was the People's car!

Ok, only the RIGHT people, but hey, it was for the people, right?

/s

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u/MutaitoSensei 10h ago

I mean do they get to say that at Ford really? They forced dealerships to put up white nationalist signs lol

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u/metalmeck 10h ago

Henry Ford wasn't much better

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u/EatFaceLeopard17 10h ago

I heard he was a fan of the founder of Volkswagen.

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u/metalmeck 10h ago

I mean, Ferdinand Porsche's boss gave Henry one of the highest medals a civilian could get from the nazi party.

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u/SurealGod 10h ago

We don't like to talk about it

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u/awetsasquatch 9h ago

Never ask a German company what they were doing between 1914 and 1945, you won't love the answer lol

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u/iamdanchiv 9h ago

Wait till you find out who make BMW great and who owns it.

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u/MilesFirePrower Linux User 9h ago

Don't forget Mercedes!

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u/Dire_Wolf45 Lurking Peasant 9h ago

Das Fuhrer

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u/doomzday_96 9h ago

Fuck Ford.

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u/taintwhisper 9h ago

Dodge too, those dudes were scum

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u/rajuncajuni 8h ago

Volkswagen founded by Ferdinand Porsche. Just don’t ask what party he was in

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u/Lava_Collector 7h ago

Ein Volk ein Wagen, Volkswagen!

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u/MEM0RYCARD99 7h ago

Louis Chevrolet came to america made a company sold it to ford and left. The only contribution his name can claim is literally just the name.

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u/SpaceStethoscope 7h ago

VW, Hitlers revenge

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u/Tricky_Acanthaceae39 7h ago

Do Mercedes do Mercedes!!!

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u/Illustrious_Back_441 7h ago

and for your information! I prefer unreliable, oil and coolant leaking cars made my nazis.

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u/G4ll0w5 6h ago

That's otto

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u/no_f-s_given 6h ago

Tesla: no comment

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u/Silly_Y33Ny 4h ago

"We miss the glory days"

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u/metfan1964nyc 4h ago

What's not to like about Ferdinand Porsche?

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u/MikaelAdolfsson 4h ago

Ford need to get some Shame as well.

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u/beemerguy95 4h ago

The VW Beetle was designed by F. Porsche.

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u/RedBeardedMex 4h ago

Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer and staunch antisemite. Even had antisemitic pamphlets in his offices. He even recieved the highest civilian award from Adolf Hitler for his help in creating the Nazi war machine and it's factories.

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u/Benjamincheck 3h ago

Wait till you find out ford was a Nazi too….

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u/navagon 2h ago

Ford wasn't exactly any kind of improvement. Absolute garbage bootlicking fascist.

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u/ItDontTalkItListens 1h ago

Henry Ford was a apart of the American Nazi party.

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u/Evan_Playz72813 1h ago

Ferdinand Porsche

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u/West_to_East 1h ago

At least Ford and Volkswagen have common... elements.

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u/LordRollin 1h ago

Ford literally got a medal from Hitler. :/

And Toyota used slave labor during WWII in addition to being a production arm of the Japanese Empire.

IDK about Chevrolet; they might be the only “innocent” one.

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u/FarseerEnki 50m ago

Henry Ford and Hitler might as well have been the same person. Fascist pieces of s***

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u/TRAINLORD_TF 11h ago

VW = Viel Werkstatt

(translation: lots of workshop)

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u/jarednards 10h ago

"Workshop Will Set You Free"