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Audi uses the work of Nazi slaves during World War Report.
Audi has revealed the truth about its engineering.
The German automaker is trying to reconcile with his dark relationship with the Nazi Party during World War II and his role in the deaths of more than 4,500 slave workers.
A new landmark report commissioned by the company shows that the sentence can be traced directly to the top Dr. Richard Bruhn, a founder and famous treasure of the company.
Bruhn led Audi back when it was Auto Union, according to the English website of local Audi still praise him his negotiating skills and his great reputation both allowed him to restore the Auto Union after the war, he was gave West Germany's big Cross of merit in 1953 before his death in 1964.
But Bruhn brilliant achievements have now been marred by his involvement in the Nazi Party A study by historians Martin Kukowski and found that Rudolf Boch Bruhn was personally responsible for the use of the Auto Union of slave labor.
The report found that Auto Union has a moral responsibility for the deaths of 4,500 slaves imprisoned in the Flossenburg concentration camp in Bavaria These men and women died while being forced to work in an Auto Union labor camp in the area Leitmeritz.
The company had also built have seven labor camps that were run by SS soldiers The company uses 3,700 slaves in labor camps About a quarter were imprisoned Jews.
In addition to the specially built camps, the study suggests that the Auto Union used another 16,500 workers at plants in Zwickau and Chemnitz, Saxony These weren t workers forced to live in labor camps, but they were forced to working for the company.
Workers in uniform striped Jewish slaves in a Nazi ammunition factory near the Dachau concentration camp during World War II.
The Audi investigation report follows a precedent set by other German carmakers Volkswagen after the war, Daimler and BMW have all ordered similar studies.
Auto Union changed its name to Audi after a merger in 1985, the company said it will examine ways to compensate former workers who are still alive.
Audi works council head Peter Mosch said he was swept away by the dark conclusions.
I am very shocked by the extent of the involvement of the former Auto Union leadership in the system of forced labor and slave labor, Audi works council head Peter Mosch told Wirtschaftswoche, a German news magazine, I do not know the magnitude of this commitment, he added.
Audi plans to take the name Bruhn on initiatives such as pension It also asks its sites around the world to edit the pages dedicated to the entrepreneur.
Ingolstadt, the Bavarian city where Audi has its headquarters, is considering renaming streets were named after Bruhn, the Telegraph reports.
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