" One person noted the tech help forum "benz-haters" that their hood had a swastika keyed into it."

The irony here is that it was the Nazis that would put marks or tatoos on the people sent to the death camps.

I also like the Alfa-Romeo marque and they along with Fiat built airplane engines and contributed to the (short) war effort for the Italians. I believe Mitsubishi made the engines in the zeros.

I think all of these companies would have stayed with automobiles if it weren't for the directive from pollitical sources. That is why to this day I laugh at pollitions that say that the evil in America comes from greedy corporations. Nobody says anything about our Government being greedy or power hungry as it takes away more of our personal and property rights.

I also like some of the weopons produced by Germany in WWII. My dad brought home a Walters P38 8mm pistol. He server in the US Army from 1940 - 1946.

I would love to see some of the equipment that MB produced for the war. The engineering of this equipment has always interested me.