The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II
Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany

Important new study of wartime industrial collaboration focussing on Ford Motor Company's French affiliate during the Second World War.

Martin Horn (Author), Talbot Imlay (Author)

9781107016361, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 April 2014

302 pages
23.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg

'The Canadian historians Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn have produced a pathbreaking study of industrial collaborationism during World War II … Imlay and Horn have produced an excellent study that allows us to better understand how French and American automotive firms operated during the Nazi occupation. It is a significant contribution to the international historiography that will help stimulate scholarly interest in the economic history of World War II and in how big business operated under the Nazi regime.' Aleksandr Bogdashkin, European History Quarterly

Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer vehicles than they could have? Ford SAF claimed after the war that they did. Exploring the nature and limits of industrial collaboration in occupied France, Horn and Imlay trace the wartime activities of Ford Motor Company's French affiliate. The company began making trucks and engine parts for the French military; but from 1940 until Liberation in 1944 was supplying the Wehrmacht. This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of the French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war. It sheds important new light on broader issues such as the wartime relationship between private enterprise and state authority; Nazi Germany's economic policies and the nature of the German occupation of France, collaboration and resistance in Vichy France, and the role of American companies in Occupied Europe.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Ford SAF: 1929–40
2. The initial struggle for control: 1940–1
3. A year of transition: 1942
4. A period of decision: the first half of 1943
5. The extent and limits of industrial collaboration: 1943–4
6. From liberation to disappearance: 1944–53
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]