I know this comment is like 5 years old, but there is plaenty of evidence of knowledge and active participation despite the knowledge for each of those corporations you mentioned.

Further admission of guilt — NY Times 1998: Volkswagen to Create $12 Million Fund for Nazi-Era Laborers.

Agreed. “VW, builder of the ‘People’s Car’ that morphed postwar in the VW Beetle, employed 12,000 [Jewish WWII Concentration Camp] slaves in the most terrible of conditions at its plant in Wolfsburg.

I think the slave labor of concentration camp victims is bad enough, even if you doubt the founding. “VW, builder of the ‘People’s Car’ that morphed postwar in the VW Beetle, employed 12,000 [Jewish WWII concentration camp] slaves in the most terrible of conditions at its plant in Wolfsburg.”

I didn't know their first CEO - the furher - was honest.