| Contents |
Airplanes for the Führer : Adam Opel AG as enemy property, model war operation, and General Motors subsidiary, 1939-1945 / Anita Kugler -- 1945 : how the Americans took over Cologne - and discovered Ford Werke's role in the war / Reinhold Billstein -- Walter Rietig and the effort of remembrance / Bernd Heyl -- Forced labor at Ford Werke in Cologne / Karola Fings -- "And they took the 38 of us to Ford" / NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln -- Memory and liability / Nicholas Levis. |
| Abstract |
About eight million people were forced to work for the "Reich war economy" during the Second World War. Their stories were rediscovered in recent years by a new, detail- and person-oriented approach to contemporary history. Fifty-four years after the end of the war, the lack of restitution for their labor and their suffering has turned into an international legal dispute. This collection presents new studies by leading German historians that reveal how General Motor's and Ford's subsidiaries in Nazi Germany became involved in the Hitler regime and its crimes. It also contains gripping oral accounts from a number of former slave laborers, an overview of the current legal and political issues, and a wealth of pictorial material. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-298) and index. |
| LCCN | 00026126 |
| ISBN | 1571812245 (alk. paper) |
