Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1940
Forced labor in AFA factories
AFA used forced labor at its factories during the 1940s. The company’s wartime manufacturing was therefore connected to the coercive labor system of Nazi Germany.
1940
Schwechat factory operated as a Mauthausen-Gusen subcamp
AFA’s factory in Schwechat, in the Vienna area, operated as a subcamp of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration-camp system. This is a central element of the company’s documented wartime history.
1940
Wartime factories connected to Nazi confiscations
Several factories associated with AFA’s wartime expansion had been confiscated by Nazi authorities from their previous owners. The documented expansion must therefore be understood in the context of Nazi expropriation and persecution.