Top 10 Companies With a Disturbing Backstory
Behind the gleaming corporate logos lie dark tales of exploitation, war crimes, and human suffering. Join us as we expose the disturbing backstories major corporations would rather keep buried! From Nazi collaborators to colonial oppressors, we’re peeling back the carefully crafted PR to reveal the shocking truth about some of the world’s most powerful companies. Our countdown includes Bayer’s production of Zyklon B, IBM’s Holocaust technology, Volkswagen’s concentration camp labor, United Fruit Company’s “Banana Massacre,” and East India Company’s role in devastating famines. Which corporate skeleton in the closet surprised you most? Let us know in the comments!
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@WatchMojo
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Which corporate skeleton in the closet surprised you most? Let us know in the comments!
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@ertugrulklc5624
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
There are lots of companies that support Israels genocide
@PatrickFDolan
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
The Clinton foundation should be on the list. Talk about shady.
@kgs012
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Apple???
@CapAmerica8299
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Everything about 💵,not people !!!
@hooksangelsbliss
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
the vw one was shocking
@Mylifeinthepits
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
No mention of Puma/Adidas. Ford in Germany during WW2 is a good one too.
@ThefirstOne-tf5ms
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
7:25 how could such an evil mind think of such a good thing?.
@zanethind3533
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Watching this when I have Hugo Boss glasses on 😂
@gordonwalker6458
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Ford, they knew their cars had a fatal flaw and they chose not to fix it to save money.
@jaredquinney204
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Interesting
@francislaverty9262
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Lots of companies allowed to slip under the radar…Dr Oetker and their involvement with the Nazis. Ferrari, too needs a mention. The main message seems to be that American Companies will ultimately kill all and sundry just for profit (Money is the American God). We only need look at the number of Nazi criminals smuggled into America post-war to help with their developing industries. The US can befriend every despot, every dictator, every mass murderer, if there's a buck to be made.
@BuccaneerBruce
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
My wife smoked her first cigarette at 9, and quit when she was 20.
@606uzi
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Siemens has a dark past
@dada_dittrich
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
shame on their evil decisions
@vickthashredder
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Fanta?!
@KarenRose70
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Where's Ford
@OfficialStroudFett
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
10:11 Sam O’ Nella… I still remember your video..
@toddsimpson9164
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
You forgot #Nikon. During World War II, they made optics for the Japanese military as they fought against the USA. Like Hugo Boss and Volkswagen, they turned away from their past and now make great cameras and lenses!
@medikalman2212
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
So basically the list boils down to German companies that were around in the 40s..
@bryanesbertgo4718
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Also:
Trump Enterprise – courtesy of Donald Trump
McDonald's – Ray Kroc's business "strategies" and "persistence" with the McDonald brothers.
Van De Kaap – their rare diamond products came from "Blood" according to some investigations
Plus other companies related to mining, oils, and wood plantation, due to environmental issues, working conditions, and man-made disasters
Plus some oil and
@AnitaLonski
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
U forgot Arm and Hammer and Arnie Haammer cannibalism
@OddManOut2
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Umm, where's Brooks Brothers?
@Superay-q8i
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Germany's new slogan should be: Look, We Get It
@haushinka2011
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Excuse me. Where’s Nestlé??
@johnnygraves4118
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
If you think this is wild, you won't BELIEVE who was apart of NATO
Rhymes with Mazi
@richardreynolds4771
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
What did we miss? Hmmmmm. Current!
@Lurch4you
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Dishonorable mention – Mercedes Benz who used 1000s of forced labor prisioners during the WWII time period.
I had a good friend who was captured & was forced to work for M-B for over two years. He made me promise on his death bed not to buy M-B products.
@soroushmohammadi3436
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Nice work
@Blaqjaqshellaq
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Nationalize Philip Morris and Monsanto!
BTW, Chiquita is still evil…
@MichaelMarquez-m3b
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Isn’t the diamond business considered a blood industry?
@Symbol-Guy
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
The original Beetle design was actually drawn by a man named Béla Barényi. Porsche finalized it.
@chrisbellon3739
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
West east Indian company at one, at so much power, they was able to get british empire to attack China more than ones, China government was trying to protect their people from opium
@chrisbellon3739
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Ford motor company had a rubber plantation in Brazil too, they lost money on it, coal mining companies had workers/ families lived in companies towns too, some mining companies also pay their workers in money only good at companies ran stores etc
@Jeremiah_Rivers76
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Fanta’s German connections may be disturbing, but the drink is a damn good Coca-Cola company product.
@manueltapia1859
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
You forget that Fanta was also made by ss germans and later Coca-Cola bought the rights 😮
That explains why always the Hugo Boss models are white and with blonde or light hair!!! Still projecting the origins of the brand😮
@apall2764
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
3 Etiquete rules:
– Don't ask a man his salary
– Don't ask a woman's weight
– Don't ask what a German company did between 1939 and 1945
@HideousConformity
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
The bigger and the more successful a corporation is, the more likely it is that their management is made up of narcissists, psychopaths and/or sociopaths. The kind of morally and ethically bankrupt people who'd sneak into your house at night, murder you in your sleep, process your carcass to extract everything of value from it and then, with a shit-eating grin on their faces, shamelessly sell those resources back to your family/relatives the next morning – if they thought it'd be a profitable business model.
@luisumana1238
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
WHAAAATTT????? You're telling me that the corporate world is super scummy and underhanded?
😱
@Jasonxbr
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Its up to you as consumers to do research on companies that involve your business. The power and the voice lies within the people to invoke change and attitudes through the message of the products or services offered. 😢😢😢😢😢
@Pro_Toddler_T
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
The Dutch East India Company opened the floodgates to the colonization of Southern Africa, my home. And you forgot Chanel; Coco Chanel's links to the Nazis can't be ignored.
@ega-P-51C
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
What’s crazy is that there are working class people want less oversight over large corporations. For no reason, like if they are going to get a reward for being a corporate simp.
@leonardolim8976
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
I love somethin disturbing
@jorgeadairramos7469
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Hello good morning ❤❤
@cassiopeia36
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Dishonorable mention to Nestlé, who relies on slave work and corrupted doctors in developing countries to sell their products.
@anthonyfowler2623
March 26, 2026 at 12:36 pm
😮
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