There Are More Than A Dozen Billionaire European Families With Nazi Pasts

The Reimann family’s ties to Nazi activity are amongst the worst due to their company’s abuse and mistreatment of the workers being forced to work for them for free. However, the Reimanns are not the only billionaire family in Europe with such an unsavory history. Many of the companies with these ties acknowledge them and apologize for them. Unfortunately, monetary reparation is very rare. Among the families with ties to the Nazi regime in the past are BMW’s Quandt family and L’Oréal’s Bettencourt family. Karthik Ramana, a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford said: