Nazi Billionaires Av David De Jong

¿Lucid and damning ¿ an absorbing ¿ and infuriating ¿ tale of complicity, coverup and denial¿ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAINA groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II ¿ and how the world allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, G¿nther Quandt ¿ patriarch of Germany¿s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW ¿ was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his arch-rival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning with this dark past remains incomplete at best. Many of them continue to control swaths of the world economy, owning iconic brands whose products blanket the globe. The brutal legacy of the dynasties that dominated Daiml

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