Originally Posted By: JimPghPA
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
My whole family is Jewish. If I drive my GTI and my aunt shows up, I'll get lectured.
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Some Jewish people will not buy German branded goods, in particular cars, due to the Holocaust/Germany's past persecution of Jews. Basically all of the German automakers built things for the Nazis.
While it is somewhat off topic (nothing to do with hitting or avoiding hitting a deer); regarding this side line issue:
Ford had a plant in Germany during WWII. The Ford plants in the United States made bombers for the Unite States during WWII, and the Ford plant in Germany made what ever the Germans wanted them to make. Ford knew that they wanted to go back to making Ford cars in Germany after WWII, so Ford told the President of the United States that if the Ford plant in Germany was ever bombed, Ford would stop building bombers here in the United States. So ALL the bombers that might be within range of the Ford Germany plant were told that they were not allowed to bomb that plant. There was one incident of one lone bomber who had a new crew, and was not informed. One day they ended up by the Ford Germany plant and realized that it was a big German plant so they went towards it. The anti-aircraft guns were numerous and well placed, and from what I was told by a WWII bomber pilot, that crew decided not to bomb that factory.
So maybe among other vehicle manufacturers, anyone wishing to boycott German auto makers that were in existence during WWII, should also consider boycotting Ford.
I wasn't speaking for myself, just some people I know. That said, some of the Jewish people I know who won't buy German cars will and do buy Fords and Japanese cars, despite Japan having been a German ally.
Henry Ford was also quite the anti-Semitic, going as far as publishing an anti-Jewish newspaper. He also wanted "peace" with Nazi Germany. None of that has anything to do with why I buy Fords.
That is an interesting bit of history though. I wonder if that is the plant where my Explorer's 4.0 was built (Cologne).