Translations:Robert Bosch GmbH/8/en

During the years of National Socialism in Germany, the company acted in the same way as other German family businesses guided by politically liberal-minded and European thinking individuals. Employees suffering persecution and others known to management received support and were, where possible, protected against deportation. At the same time, however, because the company was an important manufacturer of armaments, goods vital to the war effort were produced by the company, sometimes with the use of forced labor, which allowed National Socialist Germany to wage wars of aggression. Robert Bosch did not survive the end of the war. He died from an ear infection in 1942.