General Motors and the Nazis : the struggle for control of Opel, Europe's biggest carmaker / Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.

Author/creator Turner, Henry Ashby
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Descriptionviii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-196) and index.
LCCN 2005001370
ISBN0300106343 (cloth : alk. paper)

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