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German automobile company used the hair of Jews murdered in Auschwitz.
The Schaeffler Group is lumbered with nearly 14 billion of debt after buying the major European auto parts and tire maker Continental last year in a hostile takeover.
When the global crisis hit shortly after the purchase, the group began to waver on the verge of bankruptcy, threatening the jobs 220,000 people worldwide.
He asked for German state aid and Berlin was said to be receptive to his overtures until the details of his dark past under the Nazis came to light.
Last week, the group published the results of an independent historical record of its activities in the Third Reich, one of the many concerns to do in recent years, he admitted the widespread use of forced laborers who worked and died in appalling conditions in its factories in the occupied Poland that were put consumer goods to wartime armaments.
The company released the results on the back of Internet rumors that the plants had also used the hair of most of the detainees who died in Auschwitz, a charge he vehemently denied.
But the allegations have returned to haunt the company this week with the conclusions of the deputy director of the Auschwitz memorial, Dr Jacek Lachendro.
He says Only 1 95 tons of human hair was shaved the heads of their victims before gassing was found in a textile factory Schaeffler after the end of the war, he said he also has camp documents former slave laborers at the camp who were responsible for hair you send two loads of cars to the company Schaeffler, who works at the time under the name Davistan AG.
It was examined the hair after the war and found to contain traces of Zyklon- B; the pesticide used by the Nazis to Auschwitz to kill about 1 1 million people, most of them Jews.
The ruins of the Schaeffler factory in Kietrz three hours drive from Auschwitz at the end of the war the Schaeffler brothers relocated their industries in Bavaria.
The Nazis used the hair of the victims of the death camp doing rough work clothes and boots line the U-boat crews.
In this context, Berlin is in a moral quandary about new aid for business owners who are now forced to relinquish control to the banks that financed the unfortunate affair Continental case.
The Schaeffler family called on the German government for help.
The family hopes to win the support of the state will strengthen the hand with government support banks could take the form of guarantees Schaeffler refinance part of its debt to less costly conditions also leaving the current lenders of the hook.
Schaeffler recently granted additional rights to staff to get union support for his bid for the head of the Union State aid Berthold Huber, a powerful political figure in Germany, has thrown its weight behind the call of the family with Berlin.
But a government insider familiar with the negotiations said it is a moral appeal hard to see help a company that may have used the hair of tens of thousands of people murdered.
The historian of the company denied the allegations.
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