The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany
Cambridge University Press, 4/17/2014
EAN 9781107016361, ISBN10: 1107016363
Hardcover, 302 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer vehicles than they could have? Ford SAF claimed after the war that they did. Exploring the nature and limits of industrial collaboration in occupied France, Horn and Imlay trace the wartime activities of Ford Motor Company's French affiliate. The company began making trucks and engine parts for the French military; but from 1940 until Liberation in 1944 was supplying the Wehrmacht. This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of the French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war. It sheds important new light on broader issues such as the wartime relationship between private enterprise and state authority; Nazi Germany's economic policies and the nature of the German occupation of France, collaboration and resistance in Vichy France, and the role of American companies in Occupied Europe.
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Ford SAF
1929–40
2. The initial struggle for control
1940–1
3. A year of transition
1942
4. A period of decision
the first half of 1943
5. The extent and limits of industrial collaboration
1943–4
6. From liberation to disappearance
1944–53
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.