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'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.

"Eloquent, thorough, and profound, David de Jong's brilliant debut illuminates a dark chapter of the past while also shining a stark and uncanny light onto our present, and, perhaps, our near future--showing how an insidious mix of capitalism and fascism can destroy democracy and countless lives. An absolute must-read." -- Norman Ohler, New York Times bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third ReichA 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, 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 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 billionaires 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 previously 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."Meticulously researched ...compels us to confront the current-day legacy of these Nazi ties." --Wall Street Journal

"Eloquent, thorough, and profound, David de Jong's brilliant debut illuminates a dark chapter of the past while also shining a stark and uncanny light onto our present, and, perhaps, our near future--showing how an insidious mix of capitalism and fascism can destroy democracy and countless lives. An absolute must-read." -- Norman Ohler, New York Times bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third ReichA 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, 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 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 billionaires 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 previously 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."Meticulously researched ...compels us to confront the current-day legacy of these Nazi ties." --Wall Street Journal

Suuren rahan veriset jäljet.Ainutlaatuinen selvitys siitä, miten natsihallinto ja toinen maailmansota tekivät saksalaisista suurliikemiehistä miljardöörejä – ja miten Yhdysvallat salli sen.Kirja paljastaa miten Saksalaiset teollisuusdynastiat keräsivät käsittämättömiä omaisuuksia avustamalla Kolmannen valtakunnan hirmuteoissa. Kansallissosialistit tarvitsivat rahaa, pohatat hyviä sopimuksia vallanpitäjien kanssa. Teollisuuspohatat kaappasivat juutalaisten yrityksiä, käyttivät orjatyövoimaa ja kasvattivat aseteollisuutta varustaakseen Hitlerin armeijaa samalla, kun Eurooppa paloi heidän ympärillään.Tänään monet näistä teollisuussuvuista edustavat maailmanlaajuisia brändejä, kuten BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche ja Dr. Oetker.Ehkä shokeeraavin De Jongin paljastuksista on kuitenkin se, miten opportunistisesti Amerikka on poliittisista ja taloudellisista syistä peitellyt näiden suuryritysten verisiä jälkiä.David De Jong on hollantilainen taloustoimittaja, joka kirjoittaa mm. Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal ja The Dutch Financial Daily -lehtiin. De Jong asuu nykyisin Tel Avivissa.