 As with hundreds of foreign-owned companies that did business in Germany at that time, Dehomag came under the control of Nazi authorities prior to and during World War II.A Nazi, Hermann Fellinger, was appointed by the Germans as an enemy-property custodian and placed at the head of the Dehomag subsidiary.Historian and author Edwin Black, in his best selling book on the topic, maintains that the seizure of the German subsidiary was a ruse.