OSRAM 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 concentration-camp subcamps during the Second World War
OSRAM used forced labor at wartime plants. Arrangements involving company officials and SS personnel led to subcamps connected with concentration-camp labor being established near facilities, and prisoners were used in production-related and underground-construction work. Historical accounts report at least 4,500 prisoner deaths in the Leitzmeritz camp complex associated with this wartime context.
1933
Support for a Nazi Party industrialists' fund
Historical accounts state that OSRAM contributed 40,000 Reichsmarks to a secret fund organized by German industrialists in support of the Nazi Party during the 1933 elections.