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PhD candidate. Bike nerd. Train enjoyer. Possibly BlueSky's leading expert on outrigger monorails. Nuclear power is pretty cool. Support my research: https://www.patreon.com/m/BroadwellElectrics - https://paypal.me/luusb 🇬🇧🇳🇱

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Louis Renault:

"Renault once said of the Germans "It is better to give them the butter, or they'll take the cows."[7] The 2005 Daily Telegraph report said Renault attempted to save his company from displacement and absorption by Daimler-Benz:[13] "But for his efforts, Renault factories and employees would have been shipped to Germany."

Subsequent studies have shown that while Renault had collaborated, "he also hived off strategic materials and sabotaged trucks. Dipsticks were marked low, for example, and engines dried and seized in action, an outcome much in evidence on the Russian Front."[13] Suggestions that Renault management had slowed production for German occupiers was countered with the argument that workers rather than management had organized the production slow-downs.[25] A 2005 article in The Daily Telegraph said it could legally be argued that the Renault company, the "jewel in the country’s industrial crown"[13] was procured by theft, and that "admission that Louis Renault and his company had received rough justice would raise the question of compensation – huge compensation."[13]"