https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/volkswagens-brazil-unit-ordered-pay-30-million-decades-old-slave-labor-case-2025-08-29/

This is from August – I just learned about this recently, but there doesn’t seem to be much out there in terms of reaction.

by sdn

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  3. Wundert einen eigentlich nicht mehr so viel Scheisse bei deutschen “Traditionsfirmen” im Keller zu finden.

  4. Full ignorance. (Really, it’s almost disgusting, but typical for Germany)

  5. Was acknowledged and didn’t seem people were surprised. Brazil was under military rule at that time

  6. It was news item several years ago. This is the judicial part only.

    Also: It did jot surprise anyone for real back then.

  9. That’s fifty years ago.

    Nobody in charge during those days is alive anymore.

  10. For you it changed your entire life, for me it was a Tuesday… Something like that

  11. It’s VW what do you expect. It’s the same company that decided to design and put chips in their cars that cheat on emission values instead of start building their electric i3 and i4 for which they had plans in their drawer since 2010.

  12. It’s not the worst shitty thing a German company did, nor the latest (Tönnies). You get kinda used to it.

  13. I ran into a book by Volkswagen dealing with their involvement with the Brazilian dictatorship a while ago.

    I just looked it up, it’s on their own history section and from 2017. It’s free and also available in Portugese:

    https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/historie-15914

    (scroll to Forschung Positionen Dokumente)

    https://uploads.vw-mms.de/system/production/documents/cws/001/741/file_de/853fcc58905ddf336feff19ba28386838ed5a743/VW_do_Brasil_in_the_Brazilian_Military_Dictatorship_1964_-_1985_Portuguese.pdf?1683793957

    https://uploads.vw-mms.de/system/production/documents/cws/001/740/file_de/9238840942a98a751e313b4e54fba4f52455126c/VW_do_Brasil_in_the_Brazilian_Military_Dictatorship_1964_-_1985_German.pdf?1683793882

    Looking into it, it mentions the farms and the ecological damage. The living conditions are described as being governed by “paternal authoritarianism”. They mention the use of Agent Orange and the harmful effect on the human body, which could have been prevented (but wasn’t). The worst conditions existed for migrant laborers who weren’t housed nor supplied with clothes nor proper food. They also were subjected to violence.

    Anyway, I’d say that stuff wasn’t new to anyone who looked at VWs history nor is it something VW is hiding, rather to the contrary.

  15. I just think it’s weird only VW ever gets found guilty when all others do it, too.

  16. Same as the complicity of German companies in Holocaust. Nobody touches the capital.

  17. I work for that freaking company but that is literally the first time hearing about it..

  18. With a shrug. What happens on continents starting with A stays on continents starting with A.

  19. Its been known.. like france still has rubber slaves and america still has wage slaves..

    What do

  20. nobody cares. We have enough problems over here to deal with.

  21. Wait until you research about expensive clothes….

  22. It hasn’t exactly been received at all in Germany.

  23. OP listened to Behind the Bastards!

    Yeah also shocked about the “child daycare” in Wolfsburg.

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