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Nazi Goebbels’ Step-Grandchildren
Are Hidden Billionaires
Bloomberg News, by David de Jong
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 1/29/2013 10:44:08 AM
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| In the spring of 1945, Harald Quandt, a 23-year-old officer in the German Luftwaffe, was being held as a prisoner of war by Allied forces in the Libyan port city of Benghazi when he received a farewell letter from his mother, Magda Goebbels -- the wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The hand-written note confirmed the devastating news he had heard weeks earlier: His mother had committed suicide with her husband on May 1, after slipping their six children cyanide capsules in Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker in Berlin. (Snip)Quandt was released from captivity in 1947.
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Comments:
Long but fascinating piece...
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pete Stone, 1/29/2013 11:29:36 AM (No. 9146354)
So, was Harald in the Army or Air Force? The story starts with him being a Luftwaffe officer, but farther down it states he was a paratrooper in the Wehrmacht.
Sloppy writing.
It is an interesting article, though.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/29/2013 11:35:20 AM (No. 9146366)
The Germans were not forced to surrender to bring the First World War to a close, instead they signed an Armistice (a time out) that remained in affect until the Germans decided to start the Second World War.
This article just goes to show that while all people are created equal, not all people are born equal, in that some have a pot of money awaiting them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 1/29/2013 11:43:18 AM (No. 9146383)
Interesting read. Sad family history for those survivors...money can´t buy everything. Also, I was interested to read that Joseph Goebbels had a doctorate in Drama...did not realize that. Figures.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Four_Leaf Resident, 1/29/2013 11:53:52 AM (No. 9146406)
#1 - good eye! Mistakes like this make me question the veracity of the entire article.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 1/29/2013 11:55:22 AM (No. 9146409)
Back in grade school in the 1950´s we learned that the surviving Nazi´s and all their kin had made it to safety in South America etc., carrying lots of cash, jewelry and art objects (most of which had belonged to European Jews) with which to finance their futures.
Never forget. However the news gets out is fine with me since all Nazi´s will rot in Hell anyway--let them count their cash while they can.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gefisherman, 1/29/2013 12:19:28 PM (No. 9146476)
Paratroops were part of the Air Force, not the Army in WW2 German military.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/29/2013 1:56:14 PM (No. 9146716)
Al Gore, the Clintons, the rest of the democrats whose actions have cost thousands their lives and millions their jobs and savings will leave billions of stolen money behind for their kids.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
butch, 1/29/2013 2:44:26 PM (No. 9146834)
Hidden? Hidden?!? The Quandt family has owned a majority state in BMW for decades, and held many other substantial industrial holdings throughout the Twentieth Century. The family is hardly hidden.
The family´s troubled - and fascinating - history was thoroughly exposed in a 2007 German documentary called "The Silence of the Quandts." The family firm used slave labor during WWII, among other awful misdeeds. With such a family history, it´s no wonder they keep to themselves. The family is nonetheless very prominent in Germany.
"Hidden Billionaires" is an awfully peculiar way to describe one of Germany´s richest and best-known families.
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