The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/rosstedfordkendall on 2024-12-04 01:12:06.

Original Title: TIL Hugo Junkers, the founder of Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works that manufactured many of Germany’s WWII bombers, opposed German re-armament. The Nazis seized his patents and company, threatened him with treason, and placed him under house arrest.