[5_minutes]

Objectively, what IBM did, in helping the nazis, and was collaborating with them, for many years into the war - even when the US was getting involved —, was much worse then what this guy was doing.

There’s also Porsche, Volkswagen (basically, Hitler’s own brand) and any other brands that were involved, and basically the catholic church was preaching in many EU countries for their sons to join the German army...

[loceng]

The important part is that these ideologies don't propagate within these organizations - an important part of this however is - within the leadership of each organization - publicly acknowledging and owning the organization's past.

[bjourne]

In which countries were the Catholic Church preaching that? All I've read claims the opposite, that the church was against Nazism: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005206 http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/march-10th-2017/the-e... At the time the Catholic Church was the largest organization in the world, so some clergy is bound to have supported the Nazis, but the majority did not.

[5_minutes]

In Belgium it is widely known that families where promised more food stamps if they would sign up their sons. This was done by priests, at the local sunday church mass.

This is also one of the reasons there were so many 'collaborators' in belgium - a very Catholic country at the time - , while in fact the main goal was to get rid of the French dominance.

But if you're interested in the topic, Google what the Vatican did those days.

[IntronExon]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II_after...

I for one am not about to forgive or forget. Mind you, the Church wasn’t the only group helping the rats escape a noose.

[defo_nonconvex]

BASF, Thyssen (without the Krupp at that time...) plenty of blame to go around...

[5_minutes]

Right, so it’s not really relevant anymore, since everyone involved is probably dead by now...

[anon1253]

Hugo Boss, Kodak, Volkswagen, Siemens, Ford, IBM, IG Farben/Bayer

All of these are still around and were much more involved than Ingvar Kamprad was at the time.

[the-dude]

But you got to wear Hugo Boss!

[petepete]

Don't forget Henry Ford.