By S. Jonathan Wiesen
Within the aftermath of worldwide conflict II and the Holocaust, West German industrialists confronted an important difficulty of their public picture. With mounting revelations in regards to the use of compelled and slave hard work, the "Aryanization" of Jewish estate, and company profiteering below nationwide Socialism, industrialists emerged from the warfare with their nationwide and foreign reputations in tatters. during this groundbreaking learn, Jonathan Wiesen explores how West German company leaders remade and advertised their public photograph among 1945 and 1955. He demanding situations assumptions that West Germans--and industrialists in particular--were silent in regards to the fresh earlier through the years of denazification and reconstruction. Drawing on assets that come with inner most correspondence, well known literature, and a wealth of unpublished fabrics from company data, Wiesen finds how German enterprise leaders tried to absolve themselves of accountability for Nazi crimes whereas recasting themselves as socially and culturally engaged public figures. via case reports of person agencies reminiscent of Siemens and Krupp, Wiesen depicts company exposure as a telling instance of postwar selective reminiscence. In his advent and end, Wiesen considers the new institution of a multibillion greenback fund to supply monetary reimbursement to the sufferers of business exploitation in the course of international battle II. This acknowledgment via German of its ongoing accountability for its previous crimes underscores the modern relevance of Wiesen's research.
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In the memory of our proud history. Let us celebrate this significant day in quiet reflection. Let us look into the past with pride and into the future with hope. 4 This declaration, with its tones of self-pity and mournful optimism, represented the culmination of two of the most tumultuous years in the firm’s history. Since the end of World War II, Siemens, Germany’s largest producer of electrical products, had struggled to rebuild not only its factories but also its reputation. Like many other large German companies, Siemens had compromised itself in multiple ways during the Third Reich, from producing armaments to employing concentration camp labor.
It is important to emphasize that the equation of free enterprise and the recent catastrophes of the Great Depression and the Third Reich was a tool A Company Encounters the Past wielded not just by the communist leadership in the Soviet zone of occupation but by the major political parties forming throughout divided Germany. In the early postwar years, Germans across the political spectrum harbored doubts about the ability of capitalism to withstand the temptations of statesponsored aggression.
S. 30 Recognizing an opportunity to achieve their state-dictated production goals with cheap labor, Siemens and other Berlin companies offered to take in the last Jewish workers at company expense. 32 For these Berlin Jews, the stint at Siemens was borrowed time. 34 The second example of forced and slave labor was Siemens’s use of Jewish and non-Jewish concentration camp inmates during the later stages of the war. Many of these inmates had come from the German-occupied areas of A Company Encounters the Past Workers from the Soviet Union at forced labor in a Siemens factory in Berlin.