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調查記者大衛·德容揭示德國最有錢的商業王朝如何通過教唆第三帝國的暴行來積累數不清的金錢與權力的真實故事。
作者費時四年調查歷史文獻,揭示二戰資助希特勒的五大富豪如何教唆暴行以攢取金錢和權力。他們在歐洲烽煙中奪取猶太企業、徵用奴工,更為德軍增產軍火⋯
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.