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79-507: About 52,000 prisoners were estimated to be held there during its time of operation. The prisoners were mainly from the resistance movements in German-occupied territories . It was a labor camp, a transit camp and, as the war went on, a place of execution. Some died of exhaustion and starvation – there were an estimated 22,000 deaths at the camp and its network of subcamps. Many prisoners were moved to other camps; in particular, in 1944

158-546: A 50/50 joint venture with Geely . By unit sales, the Mercedes-Benz Group is the tenth-largest car manufacturer in the world; shipping two million passenger vehicles in 2021 and by revenue the seventh-largest car manufacturer worldwide in 2023. Also in 2023, the company was ranked 42nd in the Forbes Global 2000 . The group provides financial services through its Mercedes-Benz Mobility arm. The company

237-519: A German startup that has built an app for peer-to-peer-style carpooling, has invested in Storedot, Careem , Blacklane and FlixBus , and has acquired car2go and mytaxi (now Free Now ). Li Shufu of Chinese automobile manufacturer Geely took a 9.69% stake in the company, through Tenaciou3 Prospect Investment Limited, in February 2018, making it the company's largest single shareholder. Geely

316-470: A deal to sell its Here digital maps division to a consortium of three German automakers— BMW , Daimler AG, and Volkswagen Group , for €2.8 billion. This was seen as an indication that the automakers were interested in automated cars. In 2017, Daimler announced a series of acquisitions and partnerships with car startups focused on car sharing, in a move towards what it sees as the next generation of car ownership and usage. Part of its corporate strategy

395-418: A marque of automobiles had been given by Gottlieb Daimler for use by other companies. It is or was used principally by Daimler Motor Company and Austro-Daimler later Steyr-Daimler-Puch but also, very briefly by Daimler Manufacturing Company and Panhard-Daimler , and others. The new company, Daimler-Benz, did not obtain consent to include Daimler in its brand name and used the name Mercedes to represent

474-772: A new structure at the site, opened in November 2005, and at the same time, "the museum was entirely redesigned to focus solely on the history of Natzweiler concentration camp and its subcamps." A dramatic monument (including a bronze figure supine and emaciated) stands in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris . A documentary film was shown in 2014 about the 86 people who were murdered in the camp and whose remains were later identified by name, as described above in The Jewish skull collection section. The film "The names of

553-668: A re-badged Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van. In 2000, DaimlerChrysler acquired the Detroit Diesel Corporation and placed its on-highway division under Daimler Trucks North America. The off-highway division was placed under MTU Friedrichshafen to form MTU America. Detroit Diesel branding has been maintained by DTNA and MTU America. In 2005, MTU-Friedrichshafen was sold to the Swedish investment firm EQT Partners. That same year, DaimlerChrysler entered into an alliance with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in an effort to reach

632-537: A small number of motor racing cars built to his specifications by Maybach, stipulated that the engine must be named Daimler-Mercedes , and made the new automobile famous through motorsports. That race car later became known as the Mercedes 35 hp . The first of the series of production models bearing the name Mercedes had been produced by DMG in 1902. Jellinek left the DMG board of directors in 1909. The name of Daimler as

711-623: A web site set up by Lang. In 1951, the remains of the 86 victims were reinterred in one location in the Cronenbourg-Strasbourg Jewish Cemetery. On 11 December 2005, memorial stones engraved with the names of the 86 victims were placed at the cemetery. One is at the site of the mass grave, the other along the wall of the cemetery. Another plaque honoring the victims was placed outside the Anatomy Institute at Strasbourg's University Hospital. In 2022,

790-1120: Is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index . The central company headquarters, the Mercedes-Benz offices, a car assembly plant, the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Mercedes-Benz Arena are situated in the Mercedes-Benz complex in Stuttgart. The Mercedes-Benz Group origin is in an Agreement of Mutual Interest signed on 1 May 1924 between Benz & Cie. (founded in 1883 by Carl Benz ) and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (founded in 1890 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach ). Both companies continued to manufacture their separate automobile and internal combustion engine marques until 28 June 1926, when Benz & Cie. and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft formally merged – becoming Daimler-Benz AG ( Aktiengesellschaft ) – and agreed that thereafter, all of

869-747: Is already known from its ownership of Volvo Car Corporation . In September 2018, Daimler invested $ 155 million in US-based electric bus and its battery management technology manufacturer Proterra . In July 2019, BAIC Group purchased a 5% stake in Daimler, which is a reciprocal shareholder in BAIC 's Hong Kong listed subsidiary. In September 2019, Daimler announced that it would be "stopping its internal combustion engine development initiatives as part of its efforts to embrace electric vehicles ." In February 2020, Daimler partnered with Twelve to create

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948-572: Is available on the U.S. market as a panel van, crew bus and chassis in several variants with three lengths and roof heights, six-cylinder diesel or gasoline engines. The Sprinter has been assembled and sold in the United States since 2001. The Mercedes-Benz Group sells automobiles under the following brands worldwide: Share Now - Now part of Stellantis The Mercedes-Benz Group has a worldwide network of production plants and research centers. The following list describes all locations around

1027-569: Is one of the most absolutely criminal of National Socialist ideology," adds the historian Yves Ternon . "The project itself, continues Professor Johann Chapoutot  [ fr ] , is an example of this investment of politics by science, or science by politics that is Nazism." In 1943, the inmates selected at Auschwitz were transported to Natzweiler-Struthof. They spent two weeks eating well in barracks there in Block 13, so they would be good specimens of normal size. The deaths of 86 inmates were, in

1106-461: Is one of the world's leading car manufacturers. Daimler-Benz was formed with the merger of Benz & Cie. , the world's oldest car company, and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in 1926. The company was renamed DaimlerChrysler upon the acquisition of the American automobile manufacturer, Chrysler Corporation in 1998, it was renamed to Daimler upon the divestment of Chrysler in 2007. In 2021, Daimler

1185-565: Is perceived as a lack of sensitivity towards mourners. The first camp commandant, Hans Hüttig, was sentenced to life in prison on 2 July 1954 by a French military court in Metz . In 1956, he was released from detention after being imprisoned for eleven years. Josef Kramer, the former commandant of the camp during the time of the Jewish skull collection project, was arrested at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 17 April 1945 and tried at Lüneburg in

1264-560: Is renamed Motoren und Turbinen-Union Friedrichshafen GmbH (MTU Friedrichshafen) in 1969. In 1989, Daimler-Benz InterServices AG (Debis) was created to handle data processing, financial and insurance services, and real estate management for the Daimler group. In 1995, MTU Friedrichshafen became a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler-Benz. In a so-called "merger of equals," or "marriage made in heaven", according to its then CEO and architect Jürgen E. Schrempp , Daimler-Benz and United States–based automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation ,

1343-440: Is to "transition from being an automobile manufacturer to a mobility services provider". In April 2017 it announced a partnership with Via , a New York–based ride-sharing app, to launch a new ride-sharing service across Europe. In September, it was announced that Daimler had led a fundraising round for car-sharing start up Turo , which is a platform that lets owners rent their vehicles out to other users. It also acquired Flinc,

1422-546: The Auschwitz camp, then brought to Natzweiler-Struthof both to eat well and then to be murdered by gas, and their corpses brought to the Anatomy Institute of at the Reich University of Strasbourg ( Reichsuniversität Straßburg ) in the annexed region of Alsace, a project of great scope. Some initial study of the corpses was performed, but the progress of the war stalled completion of the collection. The collection

1501-707: The Hague System during 2020. This position is up on its previous 10th-place ranking in 2019. On 28 January 2022, CEO Ola Källenius announced that Daimler will be rebranded as Mercedes-Benz to pursue a higher valuation for the company as it shifts deeper into high-tech electric vehicles. On 1 February 2022, Daimler officially changed its registered company name to Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Sales of Mercedes-Benz Group vehicles in 2023 – 2,491,600 (+1.5%). Sales of superior products increased: Mercedes-Maybach (+19%), G-Class (+11%) and Mercedes-AMG (+4%). Fully electric Mercedes-Benz passenger car sales rose by 73% during

1580-653: The Mercedes-Benz 770 luxury car. Daimler also produced parts for German arms, most notably barrels for Mauser Kar98k rifles. During World War II , Daimler-Benz had over 60,000 concentration camp prisoners and other forced laborers to build machinery. After the war, Daimler admitted to its links and coordination with the Nazi government. In 1966, Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH merged with Mercedes-Benz Motorenbau Friedrichshafen GmbH to form Maybach Mercedes-Benz Motorenbau GmbH, under partial ownership by Daimler-Benz. The company

1659-582: The Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co., Ltd. , trading as " Denza " was established between BYD and Daimler to produce luxury electric vehicles. In November 2014, Daimler announced it would acquire 25 percent of Italian motorcycle producer MV Agusta for an undisclosed fee. MV Holding acquired the 25 percent of MV Agusta back from Daimler in December 2017. On 3 August 2015, Nokia announced that it had reached

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1738-597: The Stalag Luft III murders and was listed among the accused. Heinrich Ganninger , adjutant and deputy of commander Fritz Hartjenstein, committed suicide in Wuppertal prison in April 1946 before his trial. He was accused of having murdered four British female spies. Heinrich Schwarz was tried separately at Rastatt in connection with atrocities committed during his tenure as commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof. He

1817-400: The 86" ( French : Le nom des 86 ) was directed by Emmanuel Heyd and Raphael Toledano (Dora Films). Another documentary was made about the skull project in 2013, titled Au nom de la race et de la science, Strasbourg 1941–1944 (English: In the name of Race and Science, Strasbourg 1941–1945 ). Its goal was to explain what happened at Reich University of Strasbourg, at Natzweiler-Struthof, in

1896-550: The Asian market. The alliance resulted in the platform sharing between the 2002-2013 Colt and first-generation Smart Forfour , but the declining performance of Mitsubishi led DaimlerChrysler to sell its shares back by 2004. In 2006, Chrysler reported losses of US$ 1.5 billion. It then announced plans to lay off 13,000 employees in mid-February 2007, close a major assembly plant and reduce production at other plants in order to restore profitability by 2008. That same year, Chrysler

1975-526: The British-occupied sector for other crimes committed in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He was sentenced on 16–17 November 1945 and was hanged at Hamelin prison on 13 December 1945. The commandant of Natzweiler at the time that four female resistance agents were executed, Fritz Hartjenstein and five others were tried by a British war crimes court at Wuppertal , from 9 April to 5 May 1946. All of

2054-613: The Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft interest. Karl Benz remained as a member of the board of directors of Daimler-Benz AG until his death in 1929. Although Daimler-Benz is best known for its Mercedes-Benz automobile brand, during World War II , it also created a notable series of engines for German aircraft , tanks , and submarines . Its cars became the first choice of many Nazi, Fascist Italian, and Japanese officials including Hermann Göring , Adolf Hitler , Benito Mussolini and Hirohito , who most notably used

2133-488: The German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz, WpHG) paragraph § 38 owner of rights like financial options to buy common shares with voting rights have to be reported in case certain threshold values are achieved. These owners must report the sum of owned common shares and potential rights to buy additional shares. The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) reports

2212-635: The Gestapo after re-capture, were cremated at Natzweiler-Struthof. British bomber Sergeant Frederic ("Freddie") Habgood was hanged at this camp, after his Lancaster bomber crashed in Alsace on 27 July 1944 and he was betrayed to the Nazis by a local woman. Two died as a result of the crash, three survived as prisoners of war in a camp in Poland, one returned to England with the help of the resistance, and Mr Habgood

2291-569: The Natzweiler subcamps was an estimated 19,000 of whom between 7,000 and 8,000 were in the main camp at Natzweiler. The camp held a crematorium and a jury rigged gas chamber outside the main camp, which was not used for mass extermination but for selective extermination, as part of the human experimentation programs, in particular on the problems of fighting a war, like typhus among the troops. Doctors Otto Bickenbach and Helmut Rühl were accused of crimes committed at this camp. Hans Eisele

2370-567: The Soviet Union, the Netherlands, France, Nazi Germany , Slovene-speaking parts of Yugoslavia and Norway. The camp was specially set up for Nacht und Nebel prisoners, in most cases, people of the resistance movements. It was a labor camp and a transit camp, as many prisoners were sent to other Nazi concentration camps before the final evacuation. As the war continued, it became a death camp as well. Some people died of exhaustion from

2449-900: The Struthof Concentration Camp Museum. Bishop Gabriel Piguet , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand , was interned at Natzweiler before being transferred to the Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp . He is honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem , Israel's Holocaust Memorial, for hiding Jewish children in Catholic boarding schools. Two British Royal Air Force airmen ( Flying Officer Dennis H. Cochran, and Flight Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" R. H. Hayter ) who were involved in "The Great Escape" and murdered by

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2528-605: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 550191424 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:50:30 GMT Daimler-Benz Mercedes-Benz Group AG (formerly Daimler-Benz , DaimlerChrysler and Daimler ) is a German multinational automotive company headquartered in Stuttgart , Baden-Württemberg , Germany. It

2607-541: The accused were found guilty; of these, three were sentenced to death and two hanged. Hartjenstein's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 1 June 1946. However, he was tried a second time by the British for hanging a POW who was a member of the Royal Air Force. He died of a heart attack while awaiting execution on 20 October 1954. Those tried at Wuppertal were: Magnus Wochner was also implicated in

2686-669: The arms industry at various subcamps. Daimler-Benz moved its aircraft engine factory from Berlin to a gypsum mine near the Neckarelz annex camp. The disused autobahn Engelberg Tunnel in Leonberg , near Stuttgart, was used by the Messerschmitt Aircraft Company which eventually employed 3,000 prisoners in forced labor. Another annex camp at Schörzingen was established in February 1944 to extract crude oil from oil shale. The total number of prisoners at all of

2765-571: The camp was small, and only seven SS women served in Natzweiler-Struthof camp (compared to more than 600 SS men) and 15 in the Natzweiler complex of subcamps. The main duty of the female supervisors in Natzweiler was to guard the few women who came to the camp for medical experiments or to be executed. The camp also trained several female guards who went to the Geisenheim and Geislingen subcamps in western Germany. Leo Alexander ,

2844-614: The company to start manufacturing Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans from scratch to meet demand in North America. From 2010, these vans were set up in Germany, then shipped to the United States partially disassembled for reassembly to avoid import tariffs. A Daimler official said that the Sprinter's popularity in North America was making that process less efficient. The North Charleston plant had been employing only 100 workers. The Sprinter

2923-729: The construction of the Struthof concentration camp, in the context of his forced labor tasks. Notable Norwegian prisoners at Natzweiler include newspaper editor and Labour Party politician Trygve Bratteli who later went on to become Prime Minister of Norway , and former footballer Asbjørn Halvorsen who had previously played in Germany for Hamburger SV . Both were imprisoned at Natzweiler for distribution of illegal newspapers in German-occupied Norway . In total, 504 Norwegians were imprisoned at Natzweiler. Only 266 of them returned home alive. The Slovene novelist Boris Pahor

3002-460: The departed stands at the site. The present museum was restored in 1980 after damage by neo-Nazis in 1976. Among notable prisoners, the writer Boris Pahor was interned in Natzweiler-Struthof and wrote his novel Necropolis based on his experience. In 1940, Germany invaded and occupied France , including Alsace . That region, adjacent to the German border, was chosen for full Germanization and

3081-527: The executions of the four women in post-war trials. The two men were sent to Dachau, where they were liberated. Roger Boulanger writes of the four British SOE women executed under the supervision of Dr. Plaza and Dr. Rhode, in his section on Capital Punishment (Les exécutions capitales), as to the intent of the RSHA of Berlin, Reichssicherheitshauptamt, to have them disappear with no trace, as their names were not recorded as being at this camp. Stonehouse later sketched

3160-474: The factories would use the brand name of " Mercedes-Benz " on their automobiles. The inclusion of the name Mercedes in the new brand name honored the most important model series of DMG automobiles, the Mercedes series, which were designed and built by Wilhelm Maybach . They derived their name from a 1900 engine named after the daughter of Emil Jellinek . Jellinek became one of DMG's directors in 1900, ordered

3239-528: The following shareholder structure based on § 39 WpHG, (Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2019): As of March 2010, Daimler owned a 22.5% share of EADS . In April 2013, Daimler sold its shares in EADS, and the same year, EADS restructured itself into a new aerospace company named Airbus . On 5 March 2015, Daimler AG announced a 1,200-job package to the North Charleston region for its van plant, to allow

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3318-531: The former head of Auschwitz concentration camp was brought in to evacuate the prisoners of Natzweiler-Struthof to Dachau as the Allied armies approached. Only a small staff of Nazi SS personnel remained when the camp was liberated by the French First Army under the command of the U.S. Sixth Army Group on 23 November 1944. The anatomist August Hirt made a Jewish skull collection , whose purpose

3397-588: The four women which aided in their identification. Charles Delestraint , leader of the Armée Secrète , was detained at Natzweiler-Struthof, then was executed by the Gestapo in Dachau days before that camp was liberated and the war ended. Henri Gayot , a member of the French Resistance who was interned at Struthof between April and September 1944, documented his ordeal in drawings which are now in

3476-560: The gas chamber was reopened to the public, but the European Center for Deported Resistance Fighters (CERD), led by Guillaume d'Andlau , indicated that it did not want to: "celebrate the inauguration of this morbid place", having " nothing to do with those intended for mass murder", specifying that "it is a symbolic place for the camp and its activities in connection with the Reichsuniversität Straßburg" which

3555-703: The introduction to the book to English, at the web site where the whole book, including the biographies of the 86 people, is posted in German. Lang recounts in detail the story of how he determined the identities of the 86 victims gassed for Hirt's project of the Jewish skull collection. Forty-six of these individuals were originally from Thessaloniki , Greece. The 86 were from eight countries in German-occupied Europe: Austria, Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Belgium and Poland. The biographies of all 86 people are described in English on

3634-468: The job of its architect, Chairman Jürgen E. Schrempp, who resigned at the end of 2005 in response to the fall of the company's share price following the transaction. Another issue of contention is whether the merger delivered promised synergies and successfully integrated the two businesses. Martin H. Wiggers ' concept of a platform strategy, like the VW Group's, was implemented only for a few models, so

3713-643: The joint venture was closed in 2018. From 1986 to 1989, Daimler produced the Mercedes-Benz W123 (200 and 230E) sedans in China under a joint venture with FAW Group , with 828 units assembled in Changchun. Beijing Jeep was a joint venture between Chrysler and BAIC Motor . After DaimlerChrysler was formed, its legal name was changed to Beijing Benz in 2004, and it started producing Mercedes-Benz models in 2006. The partnership has continued during

3792-583: The man who devised the project of the Jewish skull collection . Beger was found guilty, although he was credited for pre-trial imprisonment and served no time. Also named as associated with this project are doctor Karl Wimmer  [ de ] and the anatomist Anton Kiesselbach  [ de ] . August Hirt, who conceived the project, was sentenced to death in absentia at the Military War Crimes Trial at Metz on 23 December 1953. It

3871-589: The medical advisor at the Nuremberg trials , stated that some children were murdered at Natzweiler-Struthof for the sole purpose of testing poisons for inconspicuous executions of Nazi officials and prisoners. Such executions of took place at Bullenhuser Damm . The camp became a war zone in late summer 1944, and was evacuated in early September 1944. Prior to the evacuation of the camp, 141 prisoners were shot dead on 31 August – 1 September 1944. The 70th anniversary of this execution of those who resisted Nazi occupation

3950-532: The name of its flagship marque, Mercedes-Benz, and spun off its heavy commercial vehicles unit, Daimler Truck , into a separate listed company . Daimler Truck is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and its first trading day was on 10 December 2021. In the 2021 review of WIPO 's annual World Intellectual Property Indicators Daimler ranked 8th in the world, with 65 of its designs in industrial design registrations being published under

4029-503: The sale on 3 August 2007. The original agreement stated that Cerberus would take an 80.1 percent stake in the new company, Chrysler Holding LLC. DaimlerChrysler changed its name to Daimler AG and retained the remaining 19.9% stake in the separated Chrysler LLC. The terms saw Daimler pay Cerberus US$ 650 million to take Chrysler and associated liabilities off its hands. Of the US$ 7.4 billion purchase price, Cerberus Capital Management

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4108-494: The smallest of the main three American automakers, merged in 1998 in an exchange of shares and formed DaimlerChrysler AG. Valued at US$ 38 billion, it was the world's largest ever cross-border deal. The terms of the merger allowed Daimler-Benz's non-automotive businesses such as Daimler-Benz InterServices AG, "debis AG" for short, to continue to pursue their respective strategies of expansion. debis AG reported revenues of $ 8.6 bn (DM 15.5 bn) in 1997. The merger

4187-556: The strange use of science in this Nazi project to eliminate the Jews, but keeping some remains for history and science, the project never fully completed. In the 2019 BBC One documentary The Man Who Saw Too Much Alan Yentob traces the story of 106-year-old Boris Pahor, believed to be the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps at the time. Resistance during World War II Too Many Requests If you report this error to

4266-609: The synergy effects in development and production were low. As late as 2002, DaimlerChrysler appeared to run two independent product lines. Later that year, the company launched products that did integrate elements from both sides of the company, including the Chrysler Crossfire , which was based on the Mercedes SLK platform and utilized Mercedes's 3.2 L V6, and the Dodge Sprinter / Freightliner Sprinter ,

4345-538: The totality of the strange project quite real. The next step after making the casts was to have been reducing them to skeletons. Neither of those steps, making the casts nor reducing the corpses to skeletons, was carried out. In 1944, with the approach of the Allies, there was concern over the possibility that the corpses could be discovered. In September 1944, Sievers telegrammed Brandt: "The collection can be defleshed and rendered unrecognizable. This, however, would mean that

4424-600: The victims, by comparing a list of inmate numbers of the 86 corpses at the Reichs University in Strasbourg, surreptitiously recorded by Hirt's French assistant Henri Henrypierre, with a list of numbers of inmates vaccinated at Auschwitz. The names and biographical information of the victims were published in the book Die Namen der Nummern ( The Names of the Numbers ). Rachel Gordon and Joachim Zepelin translated

4503-570: The whole work had been done for nothing – at least in part – and that this singular collection would be lost to science, since it would be impossible to make plaster casts afterwards." And so it was left, as the camp was evacuated in September 1944, and the human remains were left at a room in the Reichs University of Strasbourg. Two anthropologists, who were both members of the SS, Hans Fleischhacker and Bruno Beger , along with Wolf-Dietrich Wolff , were accused of making selections at Auschwitz of Jewish prisoners for Hirt's collection of 'racial types',

4582-472: The words of Hirt, "induced" at a jury rigged gassing facility at Natzweiler-Struthof on several days in August and their corpses, 57 men and 29 women, were sent to Strasbourg for study. Natzweiler-Struthof was considered the better place for gassing the selected victims (better than at Auschwitz), as they would die one by one, with no damage to the corpses, and Natzweiler-Struthof was at Hirt's disposal. Josef Kramer , acting commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof (who

4661-510: The work they had to do while starving. Deaths have been estimated at 22,000 at the main camp and the subcamps. Interned prisoners provided forced labor for the Wehrmacht war industry, through contracts with private industry. The work was done mainly at the numerous annex camps, some of them located in mines or tunnels to protect them from Allied air raids. Work, hunger, darkness and lack of health care caused many epidemics; mortality rates could reach 80%. Some worked in quarries, but many worked in

4740-399: The world's first C-pillar made with polycarbonate from CO 2 electrolysis in an effort towards a fully carbon neutral fleet. In September 2020, the company was fined 875 million dollars by the United States for having violated the Clean Air Act . It agreed to pay $ 1.5 billion to settle all related court actions. In February 2021, Daimler said it planned to rename itself adopting

4819-437: The world. In 2015, Daimler held interests in the following companies: Until the end of 2011, the company had also held shares in McLaren Group. Daimler held 25% of MV Agusta of Italy until 2017. Daimler sold its 50% stake in Engine Holding , to its joint venture partner, Rolls-Royce Holdings in 2014. It is now called Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG. Daimler used to own 50.1% Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation of Canada but

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4898-464: The year. Only Core segment sales declined by 2%, with 1,096,800 units sold due to supplier bottlenecks and the transition to the new E-Class . The key trends for the Mercedes-Benz Group are (as at the financial year ending 31 December): Ola Källenius became the Chairman of Mercedes-Benz Group and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars on 22 May 2019. As of May 2018 , the members of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG were: According to

4977-437: Was sentenced to death and subsequently shot by a firing squad near Baden-Baden on 20 March 1947. During the night of 12–13 May 1976, neo-Nazis burned the camp museum, with the loss of important artifacts. Structures were rebuilt, placing the artifacts that survived the fire as they were found originally. The reconstructed camp museum was officially opened on 29 June 1980. The European Centre of Deported Resistance Members,

5056-411: Was a Lagerführer at Auschwitz and the last commandant of Bergen Belsen ) personally carried out the gassing of 80 of the 86 victims at Natzweiler-Struthof. The next part of the process for this "collection" was to bring the corpses to the Reichs University, where Hirt's plan was to make anatomical casts of the bodies. Photos of the corpses as found by the Allies who saw them in the Reichs University make

5135-436: Was also stationed in this camp for a time. August Hirt committed suicide in June 1945; his suicide was unknown for many years, and he was tried in absentia in 1953 at Metz for his war crimes, including the Jewish skull collection, begun at Auschwitz, continued at Natzweiler-Struthof, and at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg . Some prisoners were executed directly, by hanging, by gunshot or by gas. The female prisoner-population in

5214-433: Was an attempt by the Nazis to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the "Jewish race" and to emphasize the status of Jews as Untermenschen ("sub-humans"), in contrast to the Germanic Übermenschen ("super-humans") Aryan race which the Nazis considered to be the " Herrenvolk " (master race). The people who were to serve as best examples of the "Jewish race" were selected from people at

5293-431: Was annexed to Gau Baden-Alsace . On 2 July 1940, two weeks after the fall of the nearby city of Strasbourg , an internment camp was set up near Schirmeck which existed throughout the war but was never part of the concentration camp system. The Natzweiler-Struthof main camp on 1 May 1941 was established nearby at Natzweiler in the Bruche valley , due to its proximity to a quarry. The construction of Natzweiler-Struthof

5372-399: Was commemorated at the museum in 2014. Four female British SOE agents were executed together on 6 July 1944: Diana Rowden , Vera Leigh , Andrée Borrel and Sonya Olschanezky . Brian Stonehouse of the British SOE and Albert Guérisse , a Belgian escape line leader, witnessed the arrival of the four women and the events leading up to their execution and cremation; both men testified to

5451-401: Was contentious with investors launching lawsuits over whether the transaction was the 'merger of equals' that senior management claimed or actually amounted to a Daimler-Benz takeover of Chrysler. A class action investor lawsuit was settled in August 2003 for US$ 300 million while a suit by billionaire investor activist Kirk Kerkorian was dismissed on 7 April 2005. The transaction claimed

5530-482: Was discovered and liberated by the French First Army as part of the U.S. Sixth Army Group , on the same day that the city of Strasbourg was liberated by the Allies. Through 1945, Natzweiler-Struthof had a complex of about 70 subcamps or annex camps. (For the system of subcamps see List of subcamps of Natzweiler-Struthof .) The total number of prisoners reached 52,000 over the three years, of 32 nationalities. Inmates originated from various countries, including Poland,

5609-461: Was hanged on 31 July 1944. His death was acknowledged as a war crime in 1947 and his family was informed, but the most personal evidence of his presence there, a silver bracelet with his name on it, emerged from the soil in July 2018, as an area with flowers was being watered by a volunteer. In his memoirs titled Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel , Pierre Seel , who served a sentence at the neighboring camp of Schirmeck , tells that he took part in

5688-556: Was imprisoned at the camp in 1944. Pahor was later transported to Dachau camp and other camps until finally liberated in Bergen-Belsen . After the war he wrote the novel Necropolis about his experiences in the camp. The novel was later translated into numerous other European languages. The camp had five commandants and numerous doctors in its history. The following private firms used Natzweiler-Struthof camp's inmates for labor in their factories: The Jewish skull collection

5767-455: Was overseen by Hans Hüttig in the spring of 1941, in a heavily forested and isolated area at an elevation of 800 metres (2,600 ft). The camp operated between 21 May 1941 and the beginning of September 1944, when the SS evacuated the surviving prisoners on a " death march " to Dachau , with only a small SS unit keeping the camp's operations. On 23 November 1944, this camp with its small staff

5846-571: Was overtaken by Toyota in the US market, leaving it outside of the traditional " Big Three " of US automakers for the first time. DaimlerChrysler had reportedly approached other carmakers and investment groups to sell Chrysler in early 2007. General Motors was reported to be a suitor, but Daimler agreed to sell the Chrysler unit to Cerberus Capital Management in May 2007 for US$ 6 billion and completed

5925-665: Was sanctioned by Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler , and under the direction of August Hirt with Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers who was responsible for procuring and preparing the corpses as part of his management of the Ahnenerbe (the National Socialist scientific institute that researched the archaeological and cultural history of the hypothesized Aryan race ). In a 2013 documentary by Sonia Rolley and others, two historians remark that "Hirt

6004-533: Was the second-largest German automaker and the sixth-largest worldwide by production. In February 2022, Daimler was renamed Mercedes-Benz Group as part of a transaction that spun-off its commercial vehicle segment as an independent company, Daimler Truck . The Mercedes-Benz Group's marques are Mercedes-Benz for cars and vans (including Mercedes-AMG and Mercedes-Maybach ). It has shares in other vehicle manufacturers such as Daimler Truck, BAIC Motor and Aston Martin . Since 2019, Smart left Daimler AG and became

6083-507: Was to invest US$ 5 billion in Chrysler Holdings and US$ 1.05 billion in Chrysler's financial unit. The de-merged Daimler AG received US$ 1.35 billion directly from Cerberus but directly invested US$ 2 billion in Chrysler itself. Chrysler filed bankruptcy in 2009. DC Aviation rose in 2007 from the previous DaimlerChrysler Aviation , an auxiliary of DaimlerChrysler AG, which was established in 1998. In May 2010,

6162-451: Was to portray Jews as racially inferior, at the camp. A documentary movie was made about the 86 named men and women who were killed there for that project. Some of the people responsible for atrocities in this camp were brought to trial after the war ended. The camp is preserved as a museum in memory of those held or killed there. The European Centre of Deported Resistance Members is located at this museum, focusing on those held. A monument to

6241-605: Was unknown at the time that Hirt had shot himself in the head on 2 June 1945 while in hiding in the Black Forest . For many years only a single victim, Menachem Taffel (prisoner no. 107969), a Polish-born Jew who had been living in Berlin , was positively identified through the efforts of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld . In 2003, Hans-Joachim Lang , a German professor at the University of Tübingen succeeded in identifying all

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