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After more than three years of research, the Ford Motor Company published a study that he says proves he has no control over what happened to the subsidiary, Ford-Werke and has not fired benefit of war operations in the German factory.
The report, the results of research About Ford-Werke under the Nazi regime summarizes more than 98,000 pages of documents and other documents collected and analyzed more than 30 archives, including the Ford archives States US, Germany and the UK, as well as external archives such as the national Archives in Washington, DC on several occasions over 45 archivists, historians, researchers and translators have worked on this project.
This study represents a massive undertaking by the company to determine how its German subsidiary, Ford-Werke, operated under the Nazis, said John Rintamäki, Chief of Staff, Ford Motor Company We didn t find anything substantial that hasn known t before but we have added many details about it.
The question of Ford's war guilt made headlines in March 1998 when a Russian woman who was forced to work at Ford-Werke continued Ford in a federal court of the United States in New Jersey for salary arrears and punitive damages This trial, which was later joined by other slaves workers, was dismissed in 1999 when the judge ruled that the claims were filed after the deadlines imposed by the US and German law.
Although Ford has maintained ownership of the subsidiary in Cologne during the war, he denied any responsibility for the use of forced labor The report states that all companies operating in Germany during the war were to use the work provided by the government German use of forced labor and slave labor in Germany, including at Ford-Werke, was wrong and can not be justified, said Rintamäki.
The total number of workers at Ford-Werke is unknown but it is estimated that the Ford subsidiary employs workers 4000-5000 during the war, as many confirmed at some point during the war between 2000 and 2500 Forced labor was used most of the time, but the inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp were working as slaves at Ford-Werke end of the war.
Ford has hired two experts to monitor the development and publication of the report Lawrence Dowler, former Librarian and Archivist at the two universities of Harvard and Yale and a recognized authority on the methodology of the research was to assess the rigor of research and reporting process Author and Professor of University Simon Reich, one of the world's leading experts on the automotive industry in Germany at the time of the Second world war, examined the report as was compiled and consulted with Ford on the issues raised by the Reich survey produced an earlier report and the Ford Motor Company and the Third Reich, although no one has suggested a bias from Dowler or Reich some in the Jewish community, including the World Jewish Congress, believed the study should have been done independently.
Without admitting any guilt, Ford made a number of contributions on behalf of the responsibility of Ford companies contributed 13 million to 5 billion fund created by the German government and industry for slaves and forced laborers Ford also announced along with the report that he was donating $ 4 million to reviews of human rights, focusing mainly on the issue of slavery and forced labor, the company is creating a new 2 million center to be affiliated with a university, and it plans to give 2 million to a humanitarian fund to the US Chamber of commerce that helps Holocaust survivors.
The company also donated documents compiled for the project, as well as a database, the Benson Ford Research Center at Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village, where they will be available for research.
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