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Audi predecessor company German automobile giant used slave laborers from concentration camps during the Second World War on a massive scale, found a new report.
A historical survey commissioned by the company last German car company to do, preceded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW found that when Audi was under the name Auto Union, it concluded an agreement with the SS, in which more than 3,700 inmates of Nazi concentration camps were put to work for the company.
The 500-page report, written by historians and Rudolf Martin Kukowski and Boch released Monday, found that the Nazi SS divisions have built seven labor camps for this purpose.
Another 16,500 non interned in concentration camps workers were also made to work for the auto company in the Saxon cities of Zwickau and Chemnitz, in addition to 18,000 in a factory in Bavaria, where more than 4 000 deaths, notes report.
More than 20,000 forced laborers were used in the production of Auto Union in their Saxon works, almost a fifth of the concentration camps, said the authors of the study, which also found that disabled workers were sent to concentration camps to run.
German tank production line Photo credit Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L04352 CC-BY-SA Wikimedia.
During the war, some of Audi plants were given to military production of tanks and aircraft engines.
Kukowski and Boch, basing their report on access to archives Audi said that the management of Auto Union was the moral responsibility of the exploitation of slave labor, focusing particularly on the founder, Dr. Richard Bruhn, member of the Nazi party.
Bruhn was president of the Auto Union 1932 board when the company was founded, until 1945, and again after the company was re-established after the war.
Bruhn, Audi announced on the website as the Father of the Auto Union, died in 1964.
The results of the study was a shock to its current management.
I am very shocked by the extent of the involvement of the former Auto Union leadership in the system of forced labor and slave, Audi works council head Peter Mosch told Wirtschaftswoche, a German news magazine business, I did not know the extent of this participation, he added.
Auto Union merged with Volkswagen, the parent company of Audi in 1965, dropping the original name in 1985 after a merger.
According to the Daily Mail, there are about ten years, Audi has poured millions into a fund set up by the German automotive industry to compensate Nazi slaves and their descendants.
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