GENERAL ELECTRIC AND ITT AND THE RISE OF HITLER p62 By 1939 the German electrical industry had become closely affiliated with two U.S. firms: International General Electric and International Telephone and Telegraph. ... In 1939 the German electrical equipment industry was concentrated into a few major corporations linked in an international cartel and by stock ownership to two major U.S. corporations. This industrial complex was never a prime target for bombing in World War II. The A.E.G. and I.T.T. plants were hit only incidentally in area raids and then but rarely. The electrical equipment plants bombed as targets were not those affiliated with U. S. firms. It was Brown Boveri at Mannheim and Siemensstadt in Berlin - which were not connected with the U.S. - who were bombed. As a result, German production of electrical war equipment rose steadily throughout World War II, peaking as late as 1944. According to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey reports, In the opinion of Speers assistants and plant officials, the war effort in Germany was never hindered in any important manner by any shortage of electrical equipment.
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