Since people seem to think that the off-topic section is for political discussion, something that is frowned upon, I have temporarily closed the section. ANY political discussions in any other forum will be deleted and the user suspended. I have had it with the politically motivated comments.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:12 am
I work for a freight company here in Houston. Last week I noticed import shipment on the dock that said "Blohm & Voss Oil Tools". I had no idea that they were still in business.
http://www.importgenius.com/importers/b ... s-llc.html
Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:21 pm
They make custom yachts now. I took a harbor tour of Hamburg last year and was also surprized to see their name still around. The yacht they were just about completed with was enormous.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:59 pm
Interesting. The aircraft part was always a (small) subsidiary of a big shipbuilding yard. From Wiki:
Blohm + Voss is a German shipbuilding and engineering works. It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a general partnership named Blohm & Voss. A shipyard was built on the island of Kuhwerder, near the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, covering 15,000 m² with 250 m of water frontage and three building berths, two suitable for ships of up to 100 metres length. The company's logo is a simple dark blue rectangle with rounded corners bearing the white letters "Blohm+Voss". Until 1955 the company name was Blohm & Voss.
The company has continued to build ships and other large machines for 125 years. Despite being almost completely demolished after the end of World War II, it now builds warships both for the Deutsche Marine and for export (see MEKO), as well as oil drilling equipment and ships for numerous commercial customers.
The company's name is often found spelled Blohm + Voß in German (and occasionally English) sources.[1] Today Blohm + Voss is (along with Howaldtswerke at Kiel and Nordseewerke at Emden) a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:53 am
so is mercedes benz, i.g. farben, daimler, zeiss from the european end, from the pacific end mitsubishi, kawasaki, diahatsu, etc. most then axis companies benefited from the use of slave labor during ww 2, including allied pows, death camp internees, etc, & all for next to no pay, & when they did get paid it was usually with meager rations. nobody seems to remember these facts, & unfortunately these international conglomerates benefited from it to this day by their wartime exploitation.
Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:20 am
We benefited too. The V-2s and has anyone ever heard of "Fritz" in Long Beach, CA?
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