Last week, the German billionaire Reimann family, whose JAB Holdings owns Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread and Pret a Manger, admitted to profiting from, and taking part in, Nazi abuses and slave labor during the Nazi regime. But the family was far from alone in participating in Nazi activities or profiting from the Nazi regime. German media conglomerate Bertelsmann profited from both slave labor and more direct means. But by the late 1920s, it began publishing, and profiting from, antisemitic and nationalistic and Nazi texts, according to the company’s archive. In 2000, it joined 6,000 German companies in paying a collective $4.5 billion to people who performed slave labor for the Nazis.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 02, 2019 13:18 UTC