David de Jong on his book Nazi Billionaires and his call for Historical Transparency from Families that control brands like BMW, Porsche, Volkswagen, Dr. Oetker, Bahlsen, Allianz and Munich Re
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Show Notes:
3:30 overview of Nazi Billionaires
5:15 families included in Nazi Billionaires control companies like BMW and Porche whitewashing patriarchs’ legacies
6:15 moral and historical reconstruction – acknowledging what’s transpired in history
9:00 Quandt dynasty and BMW Group
10:00 Flick dynasty and Daimler-Benz
11:10: Von Finck and Allianz and Munich Re
11:45 Porsche-Piëch - Volkswagen, Porsche, Bentley
13:40 Oetkers - baking powder, cake mixes, Germany’s largest beer brewery, one of Europe’s largest sparkling wine manufacturers, luxury hotels
14:00 Flick’s conviction of war crimes and post-war business success
19:20 Flick released on good behavior and saw himself as wrongfully convicted
20:30 Ferry Porsche’s autobiography We At Porsche
22:30 Rosenberger’s post-war settlement with Porsche
23:30 Porsche Sales & Marketing Representative Joachim Peiper’s death sentence commuted for the Malmedy Massacre of U.S. Army POWs
24:45 English version of We At Porsche
25:30 German version of We At Porsche
26:00 Porsche AG spokesperson and head of Porsche Foundation Dr. Sebastian Rudolph
28:30 research for Nazi Billionaires for 4 years starting in 2017
29:00 archive availability and Fold 3 access
30:30 German academic reporting of Nazi family histories
32:00 breadth and depth of families’ collaboration with Third Reich
33:00 Reimann family emerge in 2019 as Germany’s second wealthiest family
36:50 Reimann family’s Alfred Landecker Foundation
38:20 German family Bahlsen’s study expected summer 2023
39:20 ignorant remarks by Verena Bahlsen
41:00 how current ignorance and historical distortion are related to overlooking war crimes
41:50 dynasties’ lean on notion of collective guilt
46:00 de Jong’s family experience
47:00 Artist Max van Dam
49:30 his family experience makes him mindful of history
51:00 his motivation to get these stories out
51:50 plans for a second book about dynasties that shaped the U.S. and the Netherlands
52:50 evolution of his definition of justice over the course of writing Nazi Billionaires
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