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Old 21-05-2008, 04:36 PM   #11 (permalink)
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VW 'book' on the man in pdf format (8Mb),
A major figure in the company's history:

VW Hirst book.pdf
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Old 21-05-2008, 06:10 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 21-05-2008, 06:33 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Thanks for the info guys. Heard of IG Farben but didn't know anything.
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Major Ivan Hirst of REME.
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Quite agree. There was a very good feature on the Volkswagen story in After The Battle, issue number 12 (cost me 75p in 1976), which I believe is still available from the publishers.

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Thought might also be interested in IBM involvement also

IBM and the Holocaust excerpts

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Very interesting stuff for me, bookmarked it 've read the excerpts and impressed... business is dirty thing, this is another proof..
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I cetainly thought that this was appalling when I read the book. A word of caution, the author says read his book in its entirety or not at all, for he would like the reader to know all that he discovered in order to make up their own minds.

For me the question of the use of these tatttooed numbers and the prepared lists of names which the Nazis used, was a real eye-opener - I had just never questioned it before.

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