1933 to 1945 Siemens

prisoners around 1944 working @ siemens factory in kz bobrek, subcamp of auschwitz concentration camp.



a siemens truck being used nazi public address vehicle in 1932

siemens (at time: siemens-schuckert) exploited forced labour of deported people in extermination camps. company owned plant in auschwitz concentration camp.

during final years of world war ii, numerous plants , factories in berlin , other major cities destroyed allied air raids. prevent further losses, manufacturing therefore moved alternative places , regions not affected air war. goal secure continued production of important war-related , everyday goods. according records, siemens operating 400 alternative or relocated manufacturing plants @ end of 1944 , in 1945.

in 1972, siemens sued german satirist f.c. delius satirical history of company, unsere siemenswelt, , determined of book contained false claims although trial publicized siemens history in nazi germany. company supplied electrical parts nazi concentration camps , death camps. factories had poor working conditions, malnutrition , death common. also, scholarship has shown camp factories created, run, , supplied ss, in conjunction company officials, high-level officials.

siemens businessman , nazi party member john rabe is, however, credited saving many chinese lives during infamous nanking massacre. later toured germany lecturing on atrocities committed japanese forces in nanking.