3 Spoons Marked With the Logo of Siemens & Halske

3 Spoons Marked With the Logo of Siemens & Halske
3 spoons marked with the logo of the famous company Siemens & Halske, with the very early logo of the company, before changing name to Siemens. These spoons are from the early period of the XX century. All three are in very good condition. Siemens was later famous also for using slave labor during III Reich, and many Jews from concentration camps.Siemens & Halske was founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske on 1 October 1847. Based on the telegraph, their invention used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code. The company, then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske, opened its first workshop on 12 October.Siemens (at the time: Siemens-Schuckert) exploited the forced labour of deported people in extermination camps. The company owned a plant in Auschwitz concentration camp.Siemens Factory and Ravensbrück concentration camp.Siemens exploited the forced labour of women in the concentration camp of Ravensbrück. The factory was located in front of the camp.During the final years of World War II, numerous plants and factories in Berlin and other major cities were destroyed by Allied air raids. To prevent further losses, manufacturing was therefore moved to alternative places and regions not affected by the air war. The goal was to secure continued production of important war-related and everyday goods. According to records, Siemens was operating almost 400 alternative or relocated manufacturing plants at the end of 1944 and in early 1945.In 1972, Siemens sued German satirist F.C. Delius for his satirical history of the company, Unsere Siemenswelt, and it was determined much of the book contained false claims although the trial itself publicized Siemens' history in Nazi Germany. The company supplied electrical parts to Nazi concentration camps and death camps. The factories had poor working conditions, where malnutrition and death were common. Also, the scholarship has shown that the camp factories were created, run, and supplied by the SS, in conjunction with company officials, sometimes high-level officials.