Barnes & NobleNazi Billionaires- The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong

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Barnes & Noble Nazi Billionaires- The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong

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Meticulously researched …compels us to confront the current-day legacy of these Nazi ties. - Wall Street Journal. A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War Ii and how America allowed them to get away with it. In 1946, Gunther 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 archrival, 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 of investigative journalism, 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.