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Braunes Erbe: Die dunkle Geschichte der reichsten deutschen Unternehmerdynastien by David de Jong
n_ck's review against another edition
dark
informative
medium-paced
4.0
An excellent, readable piece of narrative non-fiction, exhaustively researched, detailing the sordid lives of the men who profited off plunder and genocide and their wretched fail sons who continue to avoid accountability. This book came out in the context of debates over how we publicly remember the history of those committed grave crimes but commanded the heights of society. It makes a forceful argument to fight the culture of silence or the relativist hand-waving meant to dismiss the crimes of the men who've had museums, professorships, foundations and streets named after them. It also raises important question about where wealth comes from and what sort of politics its produces when its history goes un-interrograted. As I finished this book, news came out that Elon Musk was backing the AfD and I couldn't help but pay closer attention to the story of these Nazi Billionaires who plundered and never paid for it.
lottie1803's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
almir01's review against another edition
5.0
Detailed and surprising book. Well researched. A needed book at times when we all thought that those whose labor was exploited were paid for, and those that benefited from it paid their due. Unfortunately that's not the case. The rich always get away with their crimes.
chesterburnett's review against another edition
4.0
Deeply researched account of the industrialists, who embraced Nazism as true believers and simple opportunists, enabled Hitler, profited by their association with him and were never truly held to account. Instead, they and their families emerged from the war richer than ever building economic dynasties, some of which live on today and all of which bestowed unspeakable wealth on their descendants, a scant few of whom have acknowledged their wealth was built on the backs of slave laborers and slaughtered Jews.
innakop's review against another edition
5.0
Я в захваті! Від книги неможливо було відірватись. Дуже масивна праця автора із дослідження минулого нацистських промисловців Третього рейху. І висновок, щоб більшості, вдалось уникнути будь-якої справедливості за сметрі тисяч людей, завдяки багатству.
Надзвичайно цікава і одночасно дуже сумна книга.
Надзвичайно цікава і одночасно дуже сумна книга.