Thread by @dovidmargolin

I know it's not in vogue anymore, but maybe Jews still shouldn't drive German cars? This: "The Porsches have never publicly addressed the activities of their patriarchs during the Third Reich." and much much more in @davidthejong eye-opening piece. nytimes.com/2022/04/19/opi…

More: "Take the Quandts. Today, two of the family’s heirs [are worth] $38 billion, control BMW, Mini & RollsRoyce... The family’s patriarchs, Günther Quandt & his son Herbert Quandt, were [Nazis] who subjected as many as 57,500 people to forced or slave labor in their factories."

"After the war ended, the Quandts were “denazified” in a flawed legal process in postwar Germany that saw most Nazi perpetrators get away with their crimes... Today [Herbert's children] manage their fortunes in a town near Frankfurt from a building named after their grandfather."

"For another decade [after heirs commissioned a 2011 study], the website of the Herbert Quandt Media Prize featured a bio of its namesake that made no mention of his activities during the Nazi era, except for saying he joined the board of his father’s battery company in 1940."

Back to the Porsches: "In his...autobiography, Mr. Porsche gave a twisted historical account, full of antisemitic statements, about Porsche’s Jewish co-founder, Adolf Rosenberger." Truth was the fam "bought the co-founder out of the company" in 1935, obv for far less than value.

And here's a bit about the Flicks of Daimler Benz: "Friedrich Flick controlled one of Germany’s largest steel, coal and arms conglomerates during the Third Reich. In 1947 he was sentenced to seven years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity..." -->

"At his Nuremberg trial, he was found guilty of using forced and slave labor, financially supporting the SS and looting a steel factory. After his early release in 1950, he rebuilt his conglomerate and became the controlling shareholder of Daimler-Benz." Was bought out in '85. --

"Today..the Flick dynasty worth about $4 billion maintains a private foundation in Düsseldorf named after their patriarch. The foundation...is still named after a convicted Nazi war criminal in whose factories and mines 10s of thousands of people worked in forced or slave labor."

-- "including thousands of Jews. But looking at the foundation’s website, you would never learn of the Flick fortune’s tainted past."

Highly recommend the whole article nytimes.com/2022/04/19/opi…

Gonna add this response from the Rebbe on the subject of boycotting German products

https://twitter.com/DrunkMashpia/status/1525151618701971459?s=20&t=WriT0S0saiS-NzimvpXZJg