Ford trucks used in Nazi blitzkreigs!

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Counterpunch, October 25, 2003

Hitler's Ghost
Nazi Influence in America
By JOHN STANTON

Hitler's ghost is present in the assembly lines of America's automotive
manufacturers. It's amusing listening to the Ford advertising campaign that
features the Rolling Stones song, Start Me Up. More appropriate, it seems,
would be the Stone's classic recording of Sympathy for the Devil. From 1939
to 1942, Ford Motor Company produced thousands of combat vehicles for the
Nazi's at its Cologne, Germany production facility reaping enormous profits
that would ultimately be used to design the next-generation of Ford's
driven by Americans in the 1950's. During the height of WWII, Ford shipped
raw materials from America to the Cologne plant to ensure that production
would not be interrupted by Allied bombing and that Hitler would remain a
happy customer. According to Ken Silverstein, Ford vehicles were crucial to
the revolutionary Nazi military strategy of blitzkrieg. Of the 350,000
trucks used by the motorized German Army as of 1942, roughly one-third were
Ford products. Imagine the surprise of American troops when they saw the
enemy--the Wehrmacht_driving around in Ford vehicles. "They were
understandably an unpleasant sight to men in the US Army," reported
Silverstein.

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