Editing Siemens (section)

===1933 to 1945===
[[File:USHMM95273 -Siemens factory in KZ Bobrek.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.05|Prisoners around 1944 working at a Siemens factory in KZ Bobrek, a subcamp of [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]<ref name="iechmnnjersulame"/>]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R97782, Berlin, Wahlwerbung der NSDAP in.jpg|right|upright=1.05|thumb|A Siemens truck being used as a [[Nazi]] [[public address]] vehicle in 1932]]
Siemens (at the time: [[Siemens-Schuckert]]) exploited the forced labour of deported people in [[extermination camps]]. The company owned a plant in [[Auschwitz concentration camp]].<ref name="iechmnnjersulame">{{cite book |last1=Arendt |first1=Hannah |author-link=Hannah Arendt |title=Eichmann in Jerusalem. Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen |date=1964 |location=München |oclc=3946148 |page=163}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Guilpin |first1=Anaïs |title=Le travail forcé dans les camps |url=http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oeuvre/analyse.php?i=1217 |website=L'Histoire par l'image |access-date=24 January 2015 |language=fr}}</ref>
[[File:Plan du camp de Ravensbrück.jpg|upright|left|thumb|Siemens Factory and Ravensbrück concentration camp]]
Siemens exploited the forced labour of women deported to the [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]]; a Siemens factory was located in front of the camp.<ref>[https://histoire-image.org/fr/etudes/travail-force Forced labor at Siemens Ravensbrück]</ref>

During the final years of [[World War II]], numerous plants and factories in Berlin and other major cities were destroyed by Allied air raids. To prevent further losses, manufacturing was therefore moved to alternative places and regions not affected by the air war. The goal was to secure continued production of important war-related and everyday goods. According to records, Siemens was operating almost 400 alternative or relocated manufacturing plants at the end of 1944 and in early 1945.

In 1972, Siemens sued German satirist F.C. Delius for his satirical history of the company, ''Unsere Siemens-Welt'', and it was determined much of the book contained false claims although the trial itself publicized Siemens's history in Nazi Germany.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_forgetting_print.asp German Industry and the Third Reich: Fifty Years of Forgetting and Remembering] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030133244/http://www.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_forgetting_print.asp |date=30 October 2012 }}. Adl.org. Retrieved on 19 September 2013.</ref> The company supplied electrical parts to [[Nazi concentration camps]] and [[death camps]]. The factories had poor working conditions, where malnutrition and death were common. Also, the scholarship has shown that the camp factories were created, run, and supplied by the [[SS]], in conjunction with company officials, sometimes high-level officials.<ref>Anna Vavak: Siemens & Halske AG in the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück</ref><ref>[https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/3266/siemens-halske-im-frauenkonzentrationslager-ravensbrueck RLS – Siemens & Halske im Frauenkonzentrationslager Ravensbrück] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422045055/http://www.rosalux.de/publication/14103/siemens-amp-halske-im-frauenkonzentrationslager |date=22 April 2016 }}. Rosalux.de. Retrieved on 19 September 2013.</ref><ref>Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow – Jg. 1943, Dr. phil., Historikerin, Leiterin des Projekts »Gedenkbuch Ravensbrück".</ref><ref>Margarete Buber: 303f As prisoners of Stalin and Hitler, Frankf / Main, Berlin 1993</ref>