"harry" wrote in message
...
On Jul 31, 3:36 am, "JimT" wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

...

A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.
http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html

Whatever....they were built by Nazis. I wouldn't own one.

from Wiki:

Nazi connections
Günther Quandt, whose family became major shareholders of BMW 15 years
after
the war, was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933. After the election of
Hitler, he was appointed to the position of Leader of the Armament
Economy,
which was a title given to industrialists who played a leading role in the
Nazi war economy. Quandt's factories supplied ammunition, rifles,
artillery
and batteries for the Nazis and, it is claimed, used slave labourers from
concentration camps in some of his factories.[14]
A documentary aired on German TV in 2007 claimed that Quandt not only used
slave labour, but also sidestepped postwar recrimination. BMW itself was
not
implicated in the documentary, and the firm has made no comment about the
Quandts, but claims to have confronted its own wartime history via
independent research projects.[14] The Quandt family responded by pledging
to fund a research project into the family's Nazi past and its role under
the Third Reich.[15]
Former Danish freedom fighter Carl Adolf Sørensen (b. ca. 1927) has been
asked to meet with the Quandt family and possibly receive compensation,
but
has repeatedly refused to do so on the grounds that it is too late. In
1943,
as a 17-year-old, he and 39 other resistance fighters were sent to Germany
where they worked with dangerous chemicals, some dying within a few
months,
and only four of the group were still alive as of May 2009.[16]

You should remember your tame Nazi rocket scientist Werner von Braun
(dec) has blood on his hands too.

===

Oh yeah, but I didn't have a choice in that purchase. He was trying to build
rockets not flying bombs. That was Hitler's side of the equation. He was
more than willing to disassociate himself from the Nazis at the end of the
war, but he was a big cog in the machine. The rocket program was particually
ugly because it ran so long into the end of the war, when things got
desperate. As I recall, he was appaled by the brutality. I think he felt
trapped. Interesting article about him on wiki. I've always felt conflicted
about Werner von Braun. He wasn't like the other high ranking Nazis. It was
a good thing he evaded the Russians and ran towards the Americans.