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    During World War II, Melitta Company paused production of coffee filters to instead produce military supplies for the Nazis as a “National Socialist model plant.”

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      lol, I think it would be difficult to find one company who didn’t work for the Nazis, kinda how totalitarianism works

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        true, but still to make the list of a model plant you gotta be affiliated, the ceo was in the nsdap since 1933 and later in the SS. so quite a bit more than the normal person