Never a company to shy away from controversy, Nestlé has - among other things - seen its baby formula boycotted, received international derision after attempting to force poverty and famine-stricken Ethiopia to repay $6million of debt in 2002, and has seen many people refuse to buy their products after it was revealed in 2005 that the company had allegedly bought cocoa products from farms where forced child labour had been used. Just to top if all off, in 2000 Swiss-based Nestlé also paid $14.5million into a fund offering reparations to Holocaust survivors who had been forced into slave labour during World War II. In fact, the confectionary giant has admitted that it bought a company named Maggi in 1947 who had profited from the forced workers it used in Nazi Germany. However, what's worse is that Nestlé also financed the Nazi Party in Switzerland in 1939, helping it to gain a solid base in the central European nation. This deed was repaid in-kind by the German government, who rewarded Nestlé with a lucrative contract to provide chocolate to the Wehrmacht. In addition, Nestlé chocolate bars were also used in order to seduce Jewish children into the clutches of the Nazis before they were brutally murdered. It's like a real life - and utterly disturbing - version of Hansel and Gretel.
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