• macniel@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    95% of all German companies that existed prior Hitler has a dark chapter. You wanna get rid of them all?

    • Localhorst86@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Typically, when looking at such companies history, it might look something like this:

      1911: Founded in Hinterwalddorf by the two Goldstein brothers under the name “Goldstein Maschinenbau GbR”
      1918: First branch in Nachbardorf, beginning of market expansion
      1925: 100th branch openedin Hauptstadt, revenue increases
      1933: First international branch in Austria
      1938: Goldstein brothers leave the company, transfering ownership to the Wolf family
      1939: Renaming of the company to “Reichsmaschinengesellschaft AG”
      1947: Reestablishment of the company by the two youngest nephews of the Wolf family as “Hinterwalddorfer Maschinen GmbH”

      etc.

    • Melchior@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Why? The only thing needed would have been to throw the really bad ones into prison and take the wealth from the owners. Also 95% seems high. Most companies are pretty small and your average backery did not have much to do with mass murder.

    • Karyoplasma
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      2 days ago

      It was to illustrate the futility. Name a single boycott that actually hit a corporation hard and forced them to be a little less shitty. I am not aware of any except for maybe maybe the Montgomery Bus boycott.