General Motors documents relating to World War II corporate activities in Europe Circa 1900-1982 1935-1949

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General Motors documents relating to World War II corporate activities in Europe Circa 1900-1982 1935-1949

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1799

This collection focuses on World War II era activities of and relating to Adam Opel Aktiengesellschaft, a German firm in which the General Motors Corporation (GM) purchased a controlling interest in 1928. The collection materials were assembled as part of a 1999-2000 research project under the auspices of GM. The collection contains approximately 1,150 copies of GM and Opel records, including copies of relevant records from GM's subsidiaries in Britain (Vauxhall Motors Ltd.), Denmark (General Motors International), and Sweden (General Motors Nordiska). The documents in the collection specifically relate to GM's acquisition, ownership, management, loss of effective control, write-off, and reacquisition of Opel from 1929 through the early 1950s.

25.75 linear feet (52 boxes)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351670

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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General motors corporation

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Opel AG

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Turner, Henry Ashby

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Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932-2008) received his B.A. degree from Washington and Lee University in 1954, and his M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1960) from Princeton. He has held the following positions at Yale University: instructor in history, 1958-1961; assistant professor, 1962-1964; associate professor, 1964-1970; professor, 1971-1989; Charles Seymour Professor of History, 1990-1991; and Bass Professor of History, 1991-. Turner was master of Davenport College from 1981-1991. He was a noted scholar o...