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During a recent company event,
Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess used a phrase similar to a slogan used by the Nazis in extermination camps, a report from the
says. In an apologetic statement, Diess said what happened was “definitely an unfortunate choice of words.”
Diess said “EBIT macht frei”, which is similar to “arbeit macht frei”, a slogan that literally means “work sets you free,” and that was engraved on the gates of Nazi concentration camps. EBIT is a finance acronym for “earnings before interest and taxes”, and Diess says he was referring to the freedom the Volkswagen Group would have from positive sales growth.
“At no time was it my intention for this statement to be placed in a false context,” Diess said in the statement. “At the time, I simply did not think of this possibility.”
The incident is more pronounced due to Volkswagen’s Nazi origins.
predecessor,
, was created by the Nazi government under the direction of Adolf Hitler.
Volkswagen used Jewish and non-Jewish slave labor during WWII
to produce wartime variants of the
, including the Kübelwagen. Last year, the company was
heavily criticized for tests that involved monkeys breathing in exhaust gas
in special chambers, which carried unfortunate parallels to Nazi atrocities.
Nearly all of 2019 has been a long string of headlines for Volkswagen, which is heavily gearing up for its switch to
, one of the biggest corporate changes in the company’s history. Just this week, VW declared it would build
in the next decade, announced
preorders, announced
, and the public was again
.
We will update this space if we hear more.
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