 Eventually, he became the president of the company, but clashed with "Bunkie" Knudsen as well as Henry II and ultimately, on July 13, 1978, he was fired by Henry Ford II, despite the company's having earned a $2.2 billion profit for the year.Chrysler soon hired Iacocca, which he returned to profitability during the 1980s.In 1942, Elsa Iwanowa, who was then 16 years old and a resident of Rostov in the Soviet Union, and many other citizens of countries that were occupied by the "Wehrmacht" were transported in cattle cars to the western part of Germany, where they were displayed to visiting businessmen.