Sabotage Your Own Tires for the Enemy

“With synthetic rubber (the rubber route is cut off), Michelin also manufactures tires for the Wehrmacht. Tires that the House’s engineers designed to crack at low temperatures. In front of Stalingrad or elsewhere on the Eastern Front, the assault troops’ trucks occasionally find themselves mysteriously immobilized. The Nazis had forgotten: the tire is also a “strategic product.””

“First conclusions, first precautions. To prevent the invention, quickly perceived in Clermont-Ferrand as one that will, once peace returns, outclass the Metallic and the Pilot, from falling into enemy hands, all the files are clandestinely routed to Spain and then sent to the United States and Latin America to be safe during the duration of the conflict.”