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#16
Nordschleife Master
Precisely, and the same thing every single US industrialist would have done in the same situation. Lets not pretend we are somehow better over here. Our industrialists love to profit from the war machine just as much.
"evil" is not really something that can obviously be assessed by someone there, at the time, from that position. Its easy now, after the fact.
So I cannot hold that against him.
"evil" is not really something that can obviously be assessed by someone there, at the time, from that position. Its easy now, after the fact.
So I cannot hold that against him.
But I agree, what passed is past. Porsche is today the result of Ferry's work and many other people who were not so involved in the war effort.
#17
Race Director
It was what it was and we can't change anything. Also nor do I feel we should punish the company for it's history in WWII.
I personally have benefited buy the current war with the US and Iraq/Afganistan. So many soldiers have come back with lower limb lose that technology in teh field of prosthetics has been pushed forward more that it would have been in none-war times.
I personally have benefited buy the current war with the US and Iraq/Afganistan. So many soldiers have come back with lower limb lose that technology in teh field of prosthetics has been pushed forward more that it would have been in none-war times.
#18
Nordschleife Master