The German luxury carmaker once manufactured military trucks and airplane engines for the Nazis
Mercedes-Benz is considering engaging in defense production if it would make “business sense,” its CEO Ola Kallenius has told the Wall Street Journal.
The Munich-based company once manufactured military hardware on a large scale, before and during World War II. It began supplying trucks and airplane engines to the Nazis in 1937.
After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, all of the vehicles produced by Mercedes-Benz were sent to the army or to businesses viewed as essential for the war effort. During that period, almost half of the carmaker’s…
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