Several well-established American companies aided Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, directly profiting from the atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish People.
These include well-known businesses like IBM, which supplied data processing systems to the Nazi regime, and Ford, whose German subsidiary produced military vehicles for the Wehrmacht.
The majority of individuals involved in the decision to do business with Nazi Germany were motivated by greed rather than anti-semitism. The question remains whether or not these corporations should continue to be held responsible today for the role they played in the murder of Jews during World War II.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 Motive #1: Antisemitism - Ford Motors, Texaco, and Rockefeller
01:13 Motive #2: Greed - General Electric and IBM
04:32 Motive #3: Profit over patriotism - Kodak
05:39 How should we handle companies that collaborated with Nazis?
06:40 Human rights violations by companies today
07:00 Incentivizing ethical bahavior

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Image and footage credits:
National Archives and Records Administration
Library of Congress
FDR Library
Storyblocks
British Pathé
Ford Motor Company
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Time Magazine
Newspapers.com: National Post, The News Tribune, The Roanoke Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Vancouver Sun
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of Werner Krauss, Eric Saul
Dutch National Archives
FloridaMemory.com
Eastman Kodak
Universal Pictures
Red Granite Pictures
Paramount Pictures
General Electric
Ivory Way Productions
20th Television
MGM
Transit Film
American Entertainment Partners, 20th Century Fox
Sony Pictures Television
Premier Productions
International Business Machines Corporation
National Tuberculosis Association
Coronet Instructional Films
Dialog Press
Bell System
PACT
Hal Roach Studios
Artgrid
Associated Press
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