Organization

Opel

German car maker in Rüsselsheim, owned by General Motors before and during the Second World War.

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Who holds Opel

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General Motors 100% Scholarship & press 1
Described by the Washington Post as a wholly GM-owned subsidiary during the war.

General Motors Scholarship & press 2
In the 1920s, according to the publisher of Henry Ashby Turner’s history.

General Motors and Opel, 1939–1941 subsidiary; German records show GM gave an American manager a power of attorney in March 1940 Scholarship & press 1

Proof 2 sources

U.S. Dealings With Nazi Germany -- Did Ford, GM Boost Nazi War Effort?, The Washington Post, by Michael Dobbs, as reprinted by The Seattle Times, 30 Nov 1998. Scholarship & press
The enemy was also driving trucks manufactured by Ford and Opel - a 100 percent GM-owned subsidiary - and flying Opel-built warplanes.
The documents show that the company issued a general power of attorney to an American manager, Pete Hoglund, in March 1940.
Mooney’s involvement in the conversion of the Russelsheim plant undermines claims by General Motors that the American branch of the company had nothing to do with the Nazi rearmament effort.
General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker, by Henry Ashby Turner (publisher's description), Yale University Press, 2005. Scholarship & press
GM purchased Opel, Europe’s largest automaker, in the 1920s and continued to hold it through the Second World War.

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