General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker

by Henry Ashby Turner and Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

Book Overview

This book, the first ever based on unrestricted access to General Motors' internal records, documents the giant American corporation's dealings with the Third Reich. GM purchased Opel, Europe's largest automaker, in the 1920s and continued to hold it through the Second World War. Historian Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., uncovers the fascinating story of how the American carmaker conducted business in Germany under the Nazi regime and explores larger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300106343
• ISBN13: 9780300106343
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.6"