Nazi Billionaires

The message of this angry book is that war crimes paid ...David de Jong thinks this stinks, and of course he is right ... It is impossible to fault de Jong's fierce indignation in his book. He must be right to urge that the descendants of Hitler's tycoons should admit their ancestors' criminality' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Lucid, and damning, Nazi Billionaires unearths decades of family secrets and exposes the tainted origins of several of the world's most significant dynastic fortunes. As adept in the archive as he is on the page, de Jong draws on a vast wealth of historical evidence to tell an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup, and denial, and to unearth the sordid war crimes behind some of today's most vaunted consumer brands' Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain 'Eloquent, thorough, and profound, David de Jong's brilliant debut illuminates a dark chapter of the past while also shining a stark and uncanny light onto our present, and, perhaps, our near future - showing how an insidious mix of capitalism and fascism can destroy democracy and countless lives. An absolute must-read' Norman Ohler, bestselling author of Blitzed 'David de Jong's explosive debut of narrative nonfiction is as riveting as it is disturbing. At times, it felt like reading the anti-Schindler's List: instead of secretly helping the Jews, Germany's most powerful tycoons brutally exploited their suffering for personal profit' Bradley Hope, bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale 'With its finely wrought stories of German individuals and families - including Jews who were expropriated - Nazi Billionaires suggests that even today amends have not yet been made for the profits that some reaped in an era of horror' Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Yale University