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Nazi billionaires, capitalist ethics, and other notable contradictions

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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The Whitewash of German History

The BMW Foundation Herbert Kvant with the model Inspire Responsible Leadership in an everman who saved BMW from bankruptcy in 1960, but also built a sub concentration camp in German occupied Poland. He oversaw the exploitation of thousands of forced enslaved laborers in battery factories in Berlin and acquired companies selling from Jews in France. And after having prepared the two of reckon with these crimes by saying, oh yeah, we've commissioned a study, 1200 pages in academic German, it's all in here,. they basically hide it in plain sight. They let it collect dust on the shelf.

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