General Motors and the Nazis the struggle for control of Opel, Europe's biggest carmaker

General Motors and the Nazis : the struggle for control of Opel, Europe's biggest carmaker

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Turner, Henry Ashby 1932-2008 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2005
Schlagworte:Kfz-Industrie Unternehmensgeschichte Ausländische Tochtergesellschaft Faschismus Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen Deutschland (bis 1945) USA Automobile industry and trade Adam Opel Aktiengesellschaft Geschichte 1933-1945 mehr... Deutschland General Motors Corporation Wirtschaftspolitik Geschichte 1933-1941
Umfang:VIII, 200 S
Inhaltsangabe:
  • GM's costly subsidiary sags with the slump, then soars under the swastika
  • Opel and GM adapt to the Third Reich
  • GM fumbles the Volkswagen, gains a truck factory, identifies foes and friends
  • A Nazi grasp for Opel is fended off
  • The gauleiter is thwarted, but not without consequences
  • Opel is conscripted for the German war effort
  • Mr. Mooney tries to stop the Second World War
  • GM loses control but takes wartime profits
  • Circumstances and options--responsibility and guilt.