Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
skeesx@lemm.ee 1 month agoGerman cars come from Carl Benz, who built the first automobile in 1885, four years before Hitlers birth.
Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
skeesx@lemm.ee 1 month agoGerman cars come from Carl Benz, who built the first automobile in 1885, four years before Hitlers birth.
Horsey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not necessarily Carl Benz himself, but the company has been litigated and has been proven to have had ties to the nazi regime. I’m not arguing that Mercedes was founded on Nazi values, I’m just saying there was a connection and a less than stellar history.
skeesx@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Every German corporation that was around back then had ties to the Nazis, especially anything industrial. As one can see in the US at the moment, corporations swim with the tide. Most of these companies succeeded despite the Nazis, not because of them, with obvious exception being VW.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Also actual Nazis were worse than the “nazis” everyone’s worried about now.
btaf45@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dotard Musk comes from a South African Afrikaner background. Those same people literally ran a white supremist government and jailed Nelson Mandela for decades.
logi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
and hopefully it stays that way.