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Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties (Hardcover)
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Nazi Billionaires - The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties (Hardcover)
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‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale
of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author
of EMPIRE OF PAIN A 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, Günther 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 Daimler-Benz, cofounded
Allianz and still control Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW has remained
hidden in plain sight – until now. In this landmark work,
investigative journalist David de Jong reveals the true story of
how Germany’s wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money
and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich. Using a
wealth of untapped sources, de Jong shows how these tycoons seized
Jewish businesses, procured slave labourers and ramped up weapons
production to equip Hitler’s army as Europe burnt around them.
Most shocking of all, de Jong exposes how the wider world’s
political expediency enabled these billionaires to get away with
their crimes, covering up a bloodstain that defiles the German and
global economy to this day.
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