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Originally Posted by kerry
Haven't seen this mentioned on the forum before so I thought I'd bring it up. I'm reading German Resistance against Hitler and in there it details the fact that Bosch hated the Nazis and was involved in the resistance against him.
Might make someone feel a little better about that Bosch IP on their diesel.
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I've only read this post and not the responses, so this might have already been covered.
I don't remember the details, but I remember reading some time ago that today's Bosch company puts all profits beyond a level necessary for modest growth and necessary R&D, into charitable donations. Maybe I'm thinking of another company, but I think it was Bosch.
I did a good bit of business with Michelin in the nineties and early 2000's. I learned that they are almost as secretive as a military organization and that during WWII, Michelin did everything possible to protect his people.
The nazi's demanded that he make tires. To protect his people, he made tires for the nazi's at the lowest quality and production rate that he could get by with. When the quality or production would get too low, the nazi's would come to threaten him. He would then improve just enough to keep them at bay.
Michelins security is such that when I visited their corporate engineering group in France, they took away my passport in exchange for a badge that allowed me to enter only with a security escort. I even had to exchange badge for passport and exchange back again in order to leave the facility for the two hour lunch period.
I have LOTS of respect for Michelin though.