Hmm. Henry Ford was a financial and ideological supporter of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Part too, even when war was declared on the USA late in the war.
Remember that in Hitler's vision of "total war" all occupied European industry was bent to the will of the dictator and his war machine. That includes Austrian, French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Ukrainian, Yugoslav, Norwegian, Italian, Greek, Albanian, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian & Russian industries and primary producers.
What about all those "neutral" foreign governments that freely traded with the Austrian dictator & his cronies before & even during the period of armed conflict: USA, Swiss, Spanish, Swedish, Russian armaments, raw materials and other manufacturing industries made billions in trade with the Wermacht. Where do you thing all his Bofors and Oerlikon cannon originated, or the aluminium, tungsten and iron ore, coal, oil and other materiel necessary for the industrialised slaughter of tens of millions.
In fact Robert Bosch was so horrified with some of the uses his firm's industrial output was put in the Great War, that he included in his will the ongoing provision that control of his company remain in his family and that a major proportion (20% 25%??) of company profits be gifted annually to charitable organisations, to be distributed at the discretion of the board of majority voting shareholders. During his dictatorship, Hitler merely ignored these provisions.
Source: Wikipedia & Robert Bosch annual reports.
Bosch has for many years been the largest power tool manufacturer, by a fairly large margin as far as I'm aware. Additional to this is the automotive, construction, electronics and power generation divisions (plus more that I can't at the moment recall) that make this company a true transnational titan that would dwarf most others.
Others also have their tool divisions as a mere proportion of their corporate totality. Most Japanese medium size tool firms (with the current exception of Hitachi Koki/Metabo, which is owned by a USA based hedge fund) are mere bit players in the aggregated Japanese corporate behemoths that are each dominated by one or more of the 3 or 4 huge Japanese banks.
