IT WAS exactly 80 years ago, just seven months before Wall Street's Great Crash, that General Motors (GM) bought Adam Opel ag, Germany's biggest and most efficient carmaker at the time.

正是80年前华尔街大崩溃发生前的7个月，通用汽车公司收购了当时德国最大并且效益最高的汽车制造商——亚当欧宝股份公司。

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So how did U.S. taxpayers end up holding the tab for the failed turnaround of Opel AG, a German carmaker wholly owned by GM?

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