A groundbreaking investigation into how the Nazis helped German businessmen earn billions from the atrocities of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.

In 1946, Günther Quandt – patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW – was arrested for possible collaboration with the Nazis. Quandt claimed that he was forced to join the party by his great rival, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, as well as other Nazi billionaires, have only grown richer since then, while rehabilitating this dark past remains incomplete. Many of them continue to control chunks of the global economy, owning iconic brands of products that cover the planet. The violent legacy of the dynasties that dominated Daimler-Benz, colluded in Allianz, and still control Porsche, Volkswagen, and BMW has remained hidden in plain sight – until now.

In this significant work, journalist David de Jong reveals the true story of how Germany’s wealthiest business dynasties amassed unimaginable wealth and power by supporting the atrocities of the Third Reich. Drawing on a wealth of untapped resources, de Jong shows how these billionaires confiscated Jewish businesses, supplied slaves, and increased arms production to equip Hitler’s military as Europe burned around them. Most shocking of all, de Jong reveals how the political expedience of the wider world allowed these billionaires to escape accountability for their crimes, covering up a bloodstain that taints the German and global economy to this day.

Pages: 400, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm