Magirus controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1942
Forced labor and camp operations
The Magirus factory used forced laborers, including people from the Netherlands and the Soviet Union. In 1945, it also built and controlled a forced-labor subcamp associated with Dachau, where prisoners from several occupied countries were held and worked.
1941
Supply of gas vans used in Nazi mass murder
During the Second World War, Magirus supplied vehicles that included gas vans used to murder Jewish people at the Chełmno extermination camp and in mass killings carried out by Einsatzgruppen in occupied Eastern Europe.