ADOLF HITLER HAD NO IDEA - History of course

I've heard all the stories, how Ford made a wealth of money out of Ford Germany, how Shell oil tankers were fueling up Nazi subs at sea, the Rolls Royce Kestral is news to me, but like a lot of "rumors" there are no basis in fact. Hitler took over the Ford plants during the war and Ford had no say about it. No proof of disloyalty was found in any company.
Old Henry thought Hitler was a nut.
 
TeaSea said:
Oh absolutely MM......

One of my pet peeves is something that's becoming known as "presentalism". The view of history from the present rather than from the past.
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Very correct! I've spent many years working with the National Park Service at many historical sights. Almost to a person, people always try to place present values on historical events. They also discount the flip side of the coin; the we're always right idea and the other guy is wrong. Historical events aren't very often black and white.
 
MudMarine said:
Very correct! I've spent many years working with the National Park Service at many historical sights. Almost to a person, people always try to place present values on historical events. They also discount the flip side of the coin; the we're always right idea and the other guy is wrong. Historical events aren't very often black and white.
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Then you'll appreciate this.....I was taking a staff ride some time back with some fairly high ranking officers from a joint military course. We were on Little Round Top in Gettysburg and one of the officer's made a remark to the effect that Lee and Longstreet were nuts to attempt to take the hill, that anyone standing on that hill looking into the Devil's Den could see how difficult it would be to assault it.

One of the Park Rangers standing nearby said "Er, uh sir, no one from the other side ever stood on this hill."

Helldiver is correct. There was an attempt some time ago to dislodge the Ford Foundation from several key boards that allocated funding for various philanthropic efforts. As part of that effort, the "Ford was a Nazi" flag was run up and articles were written about the "conspiracy" to make money off both sides of the war. Like all conspiracy theories, there's always an element of truth, but it was a considerable stretch to make the case, and while there was lots of innuendo, there was precious little fact.

There was also massive "presentism" in the allegations and the motivation of those making them was sorely in question
 
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