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Article

28 Sep 2011

Author:
Jennifer Lipman, The Jewish Chronicle Online [UK]

BMW owners acknowledge Holocaust record [Germany]

The owner of the car company BMW have admitted that they used forced labour during the Holocaust. The German company, founded in 1916, produced arms, including rifles and U-boat batteries, for the Nazis during the war years and around 50,000 of its factory workers were slave labourers...The details of the company's Nazi past emerged following a study commissioned by the family. [also refers to Hugo Boss]