Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):614-616; doi:10.1093/es/khl030
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europes Biggest Carmaker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 0-300-10634-3, $38.00 (cloth).
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Time and again since the defeat of Germany in World War II, Ford and General Motors (GM) have been accused of having provided not only the allied forces with weaponry via their German subsidiaries Fordwerke and Opel but the Nazi military as well. In 1998, survivors of the shoah filed class action suits against both automobile giants. On behalf of GM, a research team directed by Henry Turner browsed the documents of a dozen archives in 1999 and 2000. Five years later, Turner presents a book that, as he is eager to emphasize in
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart