to the contrary it is EXACTLY the place, to show what the money-hungry lawyers will attempt......... "steve" <steve.fisher@charter.net> wrote in message news:vop4j2cveble9b@corp.supernews.com... > this is NOT the place to post this kind of dialog... > "John Poindexter" <john.poindexter@wowmail.com> wrote in message > news:e7c38a7a.0310141420.78b9c42d@posting.google.com... > Does anyone know what happened with this case? Was Henry Ford really a > Nazi? > JP. > > -------- > Ford Motor Co. charged in Nazi secret profits on slave labor > > By Howard Hobbs > > March 18, 1998 > > http://www.dailyrepublican.com/ford_slave_labor.html > > A Belgium woman, forced to work as a slave laborer at a manufacturing > plant in Cologne, Germany during World War II, sued the Ford Motor > Company and its German affiliate. The suit, filed as a class action, > seeks reasonable payment for the work performed and the disgorgement > of unfair profits. > > The federal case was filed on March 4, 1998 and is known as Elsa > Iwanowa vs FORD MOTOR COMPANY, and FORD WERKE A.G. She is represented > by Allyn Z. Lite, Joseph J. DePalma, and Bruce D. Greenberg in Newark. > > Ford's legal counsel, issued a statement saying that it was not > responsible for the operation of the plant during wartime, when the > percentage of unpaid labor allegedly reached 50%. However, the records > shows otherwise. > > This civil action was filed this week on behalf of thousands of > persons who were compelled to perform forced labor under inhuman > conditions for the Ford plant in Nazi Germany. It was the Ford Werke > A.G., the German subsidiary of defendant, Ford Motor Company. > > The workers at Ford Werke A.G. never received compensation for their > forced labor, or their suffering. > > Prior to November 1997, German laws barred workers from filing a court > action to obtain economic damages from Ford. > > Ford Werke A.G., may be liable to its German Ford plant workers if it > can be shown that its enormous profits were actually gained by > management practices that used forced slave labor under inhuman > conditions to produce their vehicles for the Nazis. > > Ford Motor Company (USA) was the owner of a substantial majority of > the shares of Ford Werke A.G. during the period of time in which > Hitler's Third Reich was in power in Germany 1933-1945. > > The plaintiff, Elsa Iwanowa, is a citizen of Belgium, and a resident > of Antwerp. Iwanowa, was compelled to perform forced labor under > inhuman conditions for Ford Werke A.G. at its Cologne plant. She has > never received compensation for her forced labor, or for the inhuman > conditions she was forced to endure at Ford Werke A.G. > > Historical records show that, unlike most American-owned property in > Nazi Germany, the Ford Werke A.G. plant was never confiscated by the > German government. It continued to be owned by Ford Motor Company > throughout the war. Edsel Ford and Robert Sorenson, high-ranking > officials of Ford Motor Company, served as directors of Ford Werke > A.G. throughout the Nazi Third Reich. > > During that period, Ford Werke A.G. generated enormous profits, and > other economic advantages, from the use of unpaid, forced labor. > > The detailed allegations of the complaint set forth facts that the > Nazis had achieved domination over territories with an aggregate > population of 350,000,000 people. It became impossible to obtain > sufficient voluntary labor from the German people to sustain the Nazi > war machine, the Nazi regime increasingly turned to unpaid, forced > labor, impressed from its captive populations, the inmates of > concentration camps, and prisoners of war. > > The Nazi forced labor program was prosecuted with unrelenting cruelty > and persistence. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg > found that '...[m]anhunts took place in streets, at motion picture > houses, even at churches and at night in private houses'. Over > 7,500,000 human beings were forcibly deported from occupied territory > to Germany to support its war effort. From the moment of their > abduction, the victims were subjected to all the tortures, > indignities, and suffering that the human mind can encompass. > > Ford Werke A.G. began utilizing French prisoners of war as forced > laborers, and continued utilizing thousands of forced laborers > throughout the war in violation of Article 52 of the Hague Convention, > and the provisions of the Geneva Convention Governing Prisoners of > War. > > Ford Werke A.G. quickly became an eager, aggressive and successful > bidder for forced laborers. More than 50% of the work-force utilized > by Ford Werke A.G were unpaid, forced laborers as well as > concentration camp inmates from Buchenwald. > > Until 1938, Ford Werke A.G. produced passenger vehicles. In 1938, Ford > began manufacturing tracked vehicles for the transport of German > troops, and other military equipment. Soon, it had ceased producing > passenger vehicles, and was devoting its entire production capacity to > the manufacture of military trucks. Military historians estimate that > approximately 60% of the 3 ton tracked vehicles produced for the > German army were manufactured by the Ford Werke A.G. company. > > Apparently, the use of unpaid, forced laborers by Ford Werke A.G. was > immensely profitable. Relieved of the necessity of paying wages, and > operating at peak capacity to meet the inexhaustible need of the > German army for tracked vehicles and other trucks, Ford Werke A.G. > realized enormous wartime profits. > > Throughout the war years, Edsel Ford and Robert Sorenson, high-ranking > officials of Ford Motor Company, continued to serve as directors of > Ford Werke A.G. > > The favorable treatment accorded by Nazi Germany to Ford Motor Company > as the American owners of Ford Werke A.G. was attributable to a > personal friendship between Henry Ford and Adolph Hitler. Henry Ford > made annual birthday gifts of 50,000 deutsch marks to Adolph Hitler. > > On Henry Ford's 75th birthday in 1938, Hitler awarded Ford the Great > Cross of the German Order of the Eagle for Henry Ford's publication of > the notorious anti-Semitic pamphlet, The International Jew, a > Worldwide Problem [Berlin, 1921]. > -------- > >

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