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1942 Dodge WC 56 ¾-Ton Command Car Reconnaissance [T214] 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2008-09-06 19:02 |
Dodge? Note the post-war French civilian number plate. .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2008-09-06 19:05 |
I was thinking the same thing. A Dodge Power Wagon command car, painted-up to look like one from the Nazis. -- Last edit: 2010-03-15 16:00:43 (G-MANN) |
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◊ 2008-09-06 19:39 |
It's even got a Mercedes hood ornament! |
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◊ 2008-09-07 22:59 |
Dodge WC 56 Command Recconaissance. |
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◊ 2008-11-21 16:26 |
So, Dodge WC 56 whatchamacallit or not? |
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◊ 2010-03-15 16:01 |
Nazis driving an American vehicle  |
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◊ 2010-03-17 01:01 |
They did indeed. The Ford Motor Company in Detroit earned a lot of money with the German production of Ford-trucks for the Wehrmacht in the late 30ies. |
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◊ 2010-03-17 03:08 |
Additionally MANY US vehicles were captured in North Africa (1942 Kasserine Pass?) and used as Afrika Corps vehicles. |
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◊ 2010-03-17 05:05 |
Did Ford cut off vehicle production for the Nazis at some point? |
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◊ 2010-03-17 19:24 |
Really? I did not know that the Third Reich used Ford vehicles. But then I've heard Henry Ford was a big anti-semite. -- Last edit: 2010-03-17 19:32:51 |
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◊ 2010-03-17 19:32 |
No, it was opposite: the Nazi-regime had refused to pay the license-fees after some years - but this was still after the WWII had begun. Henry Ford even had visited Hitler and Göring, and he even got an official medal then. Recently I've read something about the relation between the Ford Company and the Nazis. There were relations and quite close and friendly... P.S. The license-fees weren too hard - Germany still had owned about 50% of the stocks of Ford Germany. -- Last edit: 2010-03-17 19:52:07 |
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◊ 2010-03-17 19:37 |
Interesting  But the Germans didn't use this particular vehicle did they? -- Last edit: 2010-03-17 19:38:03 |
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◊ 2010-03-17 19:48 |
G-Mann: Ford-cars were quite popular in Germany in the 20ies and 30ies. Due the high import-taxes -the Nazi's had created even stronger regulations about import-good, nearly all of them were assembled locally. The production started on the 2nd Jan 1926. Details see here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford#Ford_in_Deutschland If you are looking deeper and more to the details, you'll see, that the connections have continued during the WWII. Two interesting details: - the production started already in May 1945 - the Ford-plant in Köln-Niehl weren't heavily bombed. The rest of the town and all towns and villages around were heavily destroyed in the bomb-war, but not the Ford-plant. This happenend not randomly or without reasons... And it was not the only time. So the steel-works in the Saar-area weren't much destroyed, because it was a deal with de Gaulle, who wanted to pick up them undamaged.And the rich villa-areas of Berlin like Dahlem and Wannsee weren't bombed too much either, compared with the workers-neighbourhoods and the town center. In 1945 the US-military administration had commandeered the nicest houses. |
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◊ 2010-03-17 19:50 |
Which one, the Dodge above? As I know, not - and isn't it post-war?? As I know, there was no assembling of Chrysler-products in the pre-war Germany. Chevrolets were made, it was a plant in Berlin. |
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◊ 2010-03-17 21:30 |
Here are a few of them: http://www.autogallery.org.ru/gfordde.htm |
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