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A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II - and how America allowed them to get away with it. In 1946, Gnther Quandt - patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW - was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning with this dark past remains incomplete at best. Many ofthem continue to control swaths of the world economy, owning iconic brandswhose products blanket the globe.