All 49 German companies They have recognized their responsibility for crimes Nazism For your own benefit. In its statement, companies such as Bayer, Basf, Bosch, Evonik, Siemens, Deutsche Bahn, Volkswagen, Lufthansa or Rheinmetall were published this Friday, confirm that they contributed to the consolidation of the Nazis domain during the Third Reich, although in the first tenfolds After the world war.
“This is a very important fact in the political context that we have“In this regard, a professor of history of the University of the country is empty (UPV/EHU) Ludger Mess, referring to the current war in gas, in which Israel has already completed the lives of more than 60,000 people.
Some of these companies, most important today in the world market, even performed inventions proposed Adolf HitlerThe field is a case Volkswagen and his famous beetleThen known as a city car.
The vehicle was the idea of a dictator upon arrival at power in 1933, and although the theory sounded very well, because it was presented as an economic car, with a capacity for five people, those who wanted to pay five monthly personnel until it went on sale, which did not occur from the outbreak of war. All this money was for cars, but for the German military.
Among these companies also attracts attention Luftans’ case, which served as the Air Force of the regime and used forced workers Repair planes. But the most dramatic case for historians is a case Bavaria. “The subsidiary of this company provided Nazis with the famous Zyklon b Gas Which was used to kill many millions of Jews in concentration camps, ”says Mess.
Also against hatred and exceptions
They had to go through Almost a hundred years, in particular, 80So that these companies plead guilty in one of the greatest extermination in the history of mankind. Nazism killed about 15 million people: 6 million Jews and another 11 million, including Soviet, Poles, prisoners of war, disabled …
In this Friday statement, business leaders urge to take responsibility together, preserve history lessons and strengthen the fundamental values of democracy. “Today we assume responsibility as German companies in order to make visible memories of crimes in the Nazi era, because these crimes They remind us that we must constantly recognize the fragility of democracy“They say.
In addition, the main leaders of Germany invite Other companies will join the responsibility declarationsThe field together they position themselves Against hatred, exception and anti -Semitism On the occasion of the celebration of the end of World War II 80 years ago and the surrender of the Nazis.
