Bad business
Revealed How the Nazis helped the German companies Bosch, Mercedes, VW and Deutsche Bank become rich using 300,0000 slaves of the concentration camp.
By Alan Hall in Berlin 14 28 BST 20 June 2014, updated 20 24 20 June, 2014 BST.
List of companies Who Who of German modern industrial power.
Some companies still coming with their own business dealings.
Bayer used 20,000 slaves, but the official history brush Nazi period.
Deutsche and others enriched themselves seizing Jewish businesses.
The enormous extent of slave labor used by modern German blue-chip companies to get rich during the Third Reich was exposed over the nation's business magazine.
Wirtschaftswoche published a ranking showing the Nazi past of the largest German companies such as Bosch, Mercedes, Deutsche Bank, VW and many others, which involved the use of nearly 300,000 slaves.
The league table follows revelations earlier than Audi, which was known as Auto Union during the Nazi period, was a great exploiter of the concentration camp provided slave labor, using prisoners of 20,000 concentration camp in his factories.
Slave laborers Jewish slave labor in striped uniforms working in a Nazi munitions factory near the Dachau concentration camp during World War Wirtschaftswoche published a ranking showing the Nazi past of the largest German companies such as Bosch, Mercedes, Deutsche Bank, VW and many others, which involved the use of nearly 300,000 slaves.
Old and young The league table follows revelations earlier than Audi, which was known as Auto Union during the Nazi period, was a great exploiter of the concentration camp provided slave labor, using 20,000 prisoners concentration camp, as the boy in his factories.
Many of the listed companies by Wirtschaftswoche have already had their internal counters Nazi past.
In 2011, the dynasty behind the luxury car brand BMW has admitted after decades of silence, the use of slave labor, the treatment of Jewish businesses and do business with the highest echelons of the Nazi party during World War II.
Hitler Nazi favorite talk to the Volkswagen car factory's opening ceremony in Fallersleben, Germany, in 1938 Volkswagen used 12,000 slave laborers under the Nazi regime.
Gabriele Quandt, whose grandfather Guenther employed approximately 50,000 forced laborers in his arms factories producing ammunition, rifles, artillery and U-boat batteries, said it was bad for the family to ignore this chapter his history.
But BMW was not the only German company to take advantage of the sudden influx of slave labor.
Daimler, owner of Mercedes, admitted in 1986 that he had used 40,000 forced laborers in appalling conditions during the war, allowing it to reap huge profits.
Electrical giant Bosch used 20,000 slaves while steelmaker ThyssenKrupp used a staggering 75000.
VW, the car manufacturer people postwar morphed into the VW Beetle, e mployed 12,000 slaves in the most terrible conditions at its plant in Wolfsburg chemical and pharmaceutical giants BASF, Bayer and Hoechst employs 80,000 slaves.
Bayer has celebrated its 150th anniversary last year without mention in the official blurb on the Nazi years from 1933 to 1945.
And chemical company IG Farben was even a factory inside Auschwitz extermination camp who used prison labor in the production of synthetic rubber and oil.
However, their most horrible act was in the sale of Zyklon B - the poison used in the Nazi gas chambers At its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 slave laborers.
There were also companies that got rich thanks to Nazi rule with the publication giant Bertelsmann grew rich publishing books getter pro war for members of the Hitler Youth and, according to Handelsblatt, profited massively contracts with the German army forced at the headquarters of the Nazi party in Munich.
A car for a Führer Adolf Hitler waves to the crowd in his car Mercedes six places in this photo undated World War Mercedes is one of many German companies that helped the Nazis.
Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche, did not employ slave but became extremely rich under Nazism The bank dismissed all Jewish administrators when the Nazis came to power and in 1938, became the richest in Germany taking part in the Aryanising - or support - of the businesses owned by Jews.
Train manufacturer and giant electrical engineering Siemens still plays his cards close to his chest about the wartime activities.
The research director of the German Museum in Berlin said it was hitherto accepted his past is just a story of the house Companies such as Adidas sporting goods supplier and the high street retailer CA still working on corporate history of their time under the Nazis.
HOW DID GERMAN FIRMS TAKE SLAVES OF NAZI.
Top German companies there about ten years contributed 3 billion in a fund to compensate victims enslaved in factories of the Third Reich.
As part of a program organized by Fritz Sauckel - who was hanged at Nuremberg for war crimes - more than two million people were brought to Germany land conquered to work for the new master race.
Many of them went to private companies like VW and BASF, while tens of thousands more were conscripted to work in the most appalling conditions that produce weapons.
These included the slaves who built the V1 and V2 Rockets and other massive construction projects, such as Valentin submarine base in Bremen.
The Nazis differs from other schemes throughout histroy who used slave labor Romans and Greeks, for example, valued and venerated their forced laborers wile the Nazis treated them with great crulety.
VW, for example, was something called the play dying where forced labor of women who gave birth were forced to leave their newborns to die.
Most agricultural slaves from occupied territories of eastern Poland, the Baltic countries and Russia Slavik Because people were regarded as subhuman in the Nazi racial lexicon, the number of casualties among them were the most highest of all.
Dark chemical company IG Farben had spent even a factory within Auschwitz Pictured who used prison labor in the production of synthetic rubber and oil However, their most horrible act was in the sale of Zyklon B - the poison used in the Nazi gas chambers at its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 slave laborers.
Mercedes used slave labor during the Nazi rule of Germany.
Slave laborers were used after the raid Dambuster 1943 to repair the dams in the valley breached the Ruhr and many French workers were conscripted into the grueling work-release Atlantic Wall Hitler wanted to repel an invasion through maritime launched from England.
BASF built an Auschwitz factory to produce synthetic rubber and prisoners, there was a life expectancy measured in weeks Soviet POWs concripted to work in Nazi industrial plants suffered mortality rates between 90 and 97 percent.
BMW dynasty used 50,000 slave laborers under the Nazis.
Family secret Günther Quandt, whose family now owns BMW, used slave laborers during World War II in his arms factories in Germany.
In 2011, after decades of silence, the dynasty behind the BMW luxury car brand has admitted to using slave labor, in addition to Jewish businesses and do business with the highest echelons of the Nazi party during the Second World War.
Gabriele Quandt, whose grandfather Guenther employed approximately 50,000 forced laborers in his arms factories producing ammunition, rifles, artillery and U-boat batteries, said it was bad for the family to ignore this chapter his history.
He spoke after a controlled by the family, which concluded Günther Quandt and his son Herbert was responsible study by historian Joachim Bonn Scholtyseck deep for many Nazi injustices.
It found Guenther acquired companies through the Nazi program of Aryanization of businesses owned by Jews.
Herbert Quandt was part of the system, son Stefan Quandt said after the conclusion of the three-year study - forced on the family by public outrage over a German television documentary - compiled using file the business from the 12 years of the Third Reich.
The Quandt family bought by BMW 15 years after the war.
Guenther joined the Nazi party on May 1, 1933, a month after Adolf Hitler attained supreme power in Germany.
But he had long used a network of party officials and Wehrmacht officers to establish contacts for lucrative state contracts.
Married to Magda Behrend Rietschel, by Guenther she divorced in 1929, though they remained on good terms.
She married poison dwarf the Nazi Party, the maestro of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, and die with him - after killing their six children - in Hitler's bunker in 1945.
The company has grown rich in the Nazi era in 1937 Hitler awarded to Guenther Wehrwirtschaftsführer the title - leader of the armament economy - and its business arms supplied with the slave laborers in concentration camps at least three plants.
An execution area to assassinate those who displeased their masters was in one of its plants in Hanover and the study mentions the fate of a Polish man who was hanged at another plant in front of 50 other inmates.
An AFA technician repairing a battery cell in a German-style boat IX in 1942 was owned by AFA Gunther Quandt and manufactured batteries for the German army.
The study showed that Russian companies Quandt also used prisoners of war as slaves and Guenther and Herbert knew, stating their dispersion within their empire company HQ in Berlin.
Herbert even employed Ukrainian slaves on his weekend retreat outside the capital of the Reich.
Guenther has been described as an opportunist who helped enthusiastically regime to rid Berlin industries of Jewish workers before the start of the war.
Despite his numerous contacts with the Jewish bankers in the years before the Nazis began their rise to power.
He was as unscrupulous in its takeover of Jewish businesses were sold to force a song to the German industrial loyal as himself.
The patriarch of the family was part of the Nazi regime, the historian found in the study of 1,200 pages.
The Quandt were inseparably connected with the National Socialist crimes.
BMW, the Quandt became the major shareholder of 15 years after the war, was not involved in the documentary.
We were treated terribly and had to drink water from the toilet We were also whipped, said Takis Mylopoulos a forced laborer who worked in the plant in Hanover Quandt.
In 1946, Günther Quandt was arrested and interned at the surprise of many, it was considered a Mitläufer or travel companion - ie someone who accepted the Nazi ideology, but has not been active in the crimes.
One of the prosecutors in the Nuremberg trials, Benjamin Ferencz, now says that if the testimony today against had been submitted to the court at the time, Quandt was charged with the same offenses as administrators IG Farben - the heads of the gas used to kill Jews at Auschwitz.
Quandt was able to resettle in different German companies supervisory boards such as Deutsche Bank has also become an honorary citizen of the University of Frankfurt in 1951.
KRUPP, DAIMLER-BENZ, BASF, DEUTSCHE BANK AND IG Farben SHAME NAZI CONNECTION.
Both industry's most powerful Nazis, Alfried Krupp Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, whose Flick Group eventually owned a 40 percent stake in Daimler-Benz had been central figures in the Nazi economy.
Their companies used slave laborers like cattle to work until death.
Krupp has quickly become one of the leading European groups.
The Flick Group also quickly built a new pan-European business empire Friedrich Flick remained unrepentant about his wartime record and refused to pay a single Deutschmark in compensation until his death in July 1972 at the age of 90 years when he left a fortune of over $ 1 billion, equivalent to 400 million at the time.
For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler, says historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, advisor to former workers Jewish slaves.
The continuity of the German economy and the economies of Europe after the war is hitting some of the personalities of the Nazi economy became leading manufacturers of the European Union.
Many familiar names had exploited slaves and forced laborers, including BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, which produced munitions and the V1 rocket.
The slave labor was part of the Nazi war machine concentration camps were attached to many specialized factories where company officials worked hand in hand with the SS officers supervising the camps.
Hermann Abs, banker's most powerful postwar Germany, had prospered in the Third Reich.
Dapper, elegant, diplomatic, Abs joined the board of the largest bank Deutsche Bank in Germany, in 1937 the Nazi empire expanded, Deutsche Bank enthusiastically Aryanised Austrian and Czech banks owned by Jews.
In 1942, Abs held 40 directorships, a quarter were in countries occupied by the Nazis Many of these Aryanised companies used slave labor and in 1943, Deutsche Bank had quadrupled wealth.
Abs also served on IG Farben's supervisory board as a representative of Deutsche Bank IG Farben was one of the most powerful Nazi Germany companies, formed from a union of BASF, Bayer, Hoechst and subsidiaries in the twenties.
He was so deeply intertwined with the SS and the Nazis that he followed his own labor camp at Auschwitz slaves, known as Auschwitz III, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners died the artificial rubber production.
When they could no longer work, or have been used in verbraucht chilling term Nazis, they were transferred to Birkenau There they were gassed with Zyklon B, whose patent is held by IG Farben.
But like all good businessmen, the owners of IG Farben were protecting their interests.
During the war, the company funded the research of Ludwig Erhard After the war, 24 executives of IG Farben were indicted for war crimes at Auschwitz III - but only 12 of the 24 were convicted and sentenced to prison terms ranging from a year and a-half to eight years.
From an article online in 2009 by Adam Lebor mail.
Auto giant Audi employs thousands of prisoners of concentration camp during World War II and was firmly trapped in the Nazi regime, a survey revealed last month.
During the war years, was known as Audi Auto Union Group and, in an agreement negotiated by the SS, hired 3,700 inmates of the concentration camp to work in what was then the second largest German automobile firm.
The study also revealed another 16,500 forced laborers university, not imprisoned in concentration camps, working in factories Auto Union.
Dark car giant Audi history and camp called Auto Union, employed thousands of detainees concentration during World War II, a survey has found.
The authors of the study, the economic historian Rudolf Boch University of Chemnitz, and Martin Kukowski, head of the history department Audi, Audi had access to archives for the first time in their history cleaning the home of the company.
Their book, war economy and labor utilization Auto Union AG in Chemnitz During World War II, focuses on the company, which was the only serious competitor to Mercedes during the lifetime of 12 years third Reich, with a market share of 20 percent for luxury cars.
During the war, some of the plants were handed over to military production, churning tanks and air craft engines.
The 500-page report says that Auto Union - now the luxury brand Audi Volkswagen - built its success on the back of human misery and suffering, and that founder Dr. Richard Bruhn was in large part responsible for the operation large-scale enterprise of forced labor.
More than 20,000 forced laborers were used in the production of Auto Union in their Saxon works, almost a fifth of the concentration camps, said the study authors.
The conditions in the concentration camp in the city of Zwickau, where many workers were held, were particularly appalling with 1,000 prisoners - many of them forced laborers from France - living in unheated barracks.
The conditions were devastating, said historians.
The researchers also found that disabled workers were shipped north to the Flossenburg concentration camp to run, and the number replaced by prisoners of the camp.
Towards the end of the war, 688 detainees were sent Zwickau in March of death in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, with nearly half of them die on the way.
Audi recognized his wartime guilt in the use of forced labor over there about ten years, to pay massive sums in the $ 3 billion fund that German industry was set up to compensate workers Nazi slaves and their descendants.
The company was founded in 1932 following a merger of four automobile manufacturers, and dropped the Auto Union name after another merger in 1985.
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