I just read in one of my car magazines about a person who visited the grave of Dick Seaman who was an englisman who drove for the vaunted preward silver arrow Mercedes team. He died in a crash racing one and is buried in England. When at the graveyard they noted fresh flowers on his grave. They asked the Vicar of the church who was putting flowers on his grave and he answered "The Mercedes factory has sent flowers to it every week since 1936". Wow!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Did they drop them off from the cockpit of a ME-109 from September 1939 through May 1945?

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

that crossed my mind too.

I wonder if businesses were able to do business with each other across the lines in ww2?

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That's hard to believe.....

It got put on some kind of auto deduction and nobody has been paying attention.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Perhaps arranged by a neutral such as Count Folke Bernadotte at the embassy in Sweden.

Or in neutral Swittzerland....

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Wars NEVER < STOP > Commerce.

IBM and Ford (both) were doing Business in Germany all through out WWII
[Sometimes With/For the Reich]

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'84 300SD sold
124.128

Were they independent subsidiaries? Did they avoid bombing?

Daimler Benz had agents, er, representatives, in England during the Zweiter Weltkrieg, zo off kourse, ve made sure dass, on the grave the flowers were in ge putted.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Flowers by wire so to speak even then may have worked.

they were one set, planted summer of 1939, replaced summer of 45, made out of plastic.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

There are three Germans buried near an old POW camp in Germany. At the end of the war there was no one in Germany to claim the remains, so they went into the city graveyard.

Every year at Christmas the German government sends flowers.