"Germany's wealthy and reclusive Quandt family, a major BMW shareholder, has gone on the defensive. For decades the family repressed its Nazi past, but a new documentary film provides new photos of old revelations that have prompted the Quandts to confront their own history of using slave laborers in factories during World War II."
Read it all at Spiegel Online.
BMW slave labor Quandt World War II Germany Nazis
Saturday, October 13, 2007
BMW's major shareholder, slave labor, and their German Nazi past.
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It makes me sick that the Quandts are starting an investigation now to find out whether AFA used forced labour or not. There are people alive today who lived in the KZ-camp during second world war who can confirm they worked at AFA. It seems like the Quandts are vaiting for one thing... that all living evidence will pass away.
I lived in Germany for 10 years and found it to be a lovely country. I'm wondering when all their "debts" to society will finally be paid. The German people as a whole have been made to pay constantly since the end of WWII. Average people who had nothing to do with the war have been made to feel shame. War is a terrible thing to deal with but it's been over for 63 years and it's time to move on. Continually bringing up the horrors of the war or making the children or relatives of the people living at that time continue to pay throughout eternity is WRONG. It's like punishing a child for breaking a valuable object and then 50 years later, still reminding him as an adult of the broken object. The German people deserve to live without a cloud of guilt hanging over them and constantly reminding them of the horrors of the war will not bring back those who perished.
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