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The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during

World War II

Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufac-

turing fewer vehicles than they could have? Ford SAF claimed after the

war that they did. Exploring the nature and limits of industrial collabo-

ration in occupied France, Imlay and Horn trace the wartime activities of

Ford Motor Company’s French afﬁliate. The company began making

trucks and engine parts for the French military, but from 1940 until

Liberation in 1944 was supplying the Wehrmacht. This book offers a

fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conﬂicting

demands of the French, German and American authorities to thrive

during the war. It sheds important new light on broader issues such as

the wartime relationship between private enterprise and state authority,

Nazi Germany’s economic policies and the nature of the German occu-

pation of France, collaboration and resistance in Vichy France and the

role of American companies in occupied Europe.

Talbot Imlay is a Professor at the Department of Historical Sciences at

the Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Martin Horn is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University,

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

The Politics of Industrial

Collaboration during

World War II

Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany

Talbot Imlay

Université Laval

and

Martin Horn

McMaster University