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Originally Posted by freebeard
Good thing it's history instead of politics, so we can discuss it in The Lounge.  |
But it would eventually intersect with politics anyway. Well, it would be hard to state that Opel under GM ownership didn't have any Nazi sympathizer on its board of directors, even though in Nazi Germany the local branches of American companies would be taken over at any time without prior notice, in a similar way to how GM in Venezuela had its factory taken over by the local dictatorship. Even if an American company could either recover its assets or be paid for their loss or war-inflicted damages after the war is ended, it's always a risk to keep an asset in a war zone controlled directly by the opposite contender.