What was the relationship between German big business and the Third
Reich? To what extent did business leaders collaborate with the
Nazis? This book examines the experience of the Daimler-Benz
company-one of Germany's most important armament manufacturers and
automobile makers-from its formation in 1926 through the end of
World War II. Based on a substantial body of new material from
formerly inaccessible East German archives and previously closed
Mercedes-Benz AG records, the book reveals for the first time a
close association between the car manufacturer and the Nazi system,
from 1933 onwards. Neil Gregor traces the early history of the
Daimler-Benz company and examines how opportunities offered by Nazi
rearmament in the 1930s led to its rapid expansion and a surge in
profits. Focusing mainly on the war years, Gregor demonstrates how
the company succeeded in exploiting the demands of the war economy
while situating its operations most advantageously for resumption
of commercial activity in peacetime. Despite Allied bombing, says
Gregor, Daimler-Benz AG emerged from the war in good shape-with a
clear operating strategy, a largely intact inventory, and core
production lines geared for the peacetime market. With its own
interests and preservation as prime motives, the company acquiesced
in the exploitation of forced labor, thereby actively intensifying
the suffering of civilians, prisoners of war, and Jews and other
victims of concentration camps. He concludes that the ability of
Daimler-Benz to protect its interests during the war and to manage
the transition to peace was predicated upon collusion in the racial
barbarism of the Nazi regime.
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