000			02983cam a2200397Ii 4500
001			on1256806634
003			OCoLC
005			20230426115003.0
008			210617t20222022nyuab e b 001 0beng d
020			_a9781328497888 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1328497887 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9780063268647 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1256806634
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dBDX _dPX0 _dOCLCO _dRNL _dNFG
043			_ae-gx---
049			_aNFGA
092			_a940.531 _bJ79
100	1		_aJong, David de _c(Journalist), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNazi billionaires : _bthe dark history of Germany's wealthiest dynasties / _cDavid de Jong.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bMariner Books, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_axvii, 381 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 326-361) and index.
520			_aA 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, 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 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. Using a wealth of untapped sources, de Jong shows how these tycoons seized Jewish businesses, procured slave laborers, and ramped up weapons production to equip Hitler's army as Europe burned around them. Most shocking of all, de Jong exposes how America'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.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xEconomic aspects _zGermany. _967033
650		0	_aProfiteering _zGermany _xHistory.
650		0	_aBusiness enterprises _zGermany _xHistory.
650		0	_aNazis _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aBusiness enterprises _zGermany.
651		0	_aGermany _xEconomic conditions.
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c345758 _d345758