New from me @VanityFair (1/5): I spent part of the past year and a half investigating Germany’s wealthiest person, Klaus-Michael Kuehne, and his cover-up of his family’s and company’s Nazi history and Holocaust profiteering.
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(2/5) Kuehne is 87 years old, doesn't have heirs, and will leave his fortune, estimated at $44 billion, to his family foundation, making it one of world's largest charities. He also carries a dark family secret. vanityfair.com/news/story/ric…
(3/5) On behalf of the Nazi authorities, Kuehne + Nagel, the family logistics firm led by his father and uncle, transported looted property of men, women and children from Western Europe after they were deported to concentration and extermination camps. vanityfair.com/news/story/ric…
(4/5) Despite Kuehne + Nagel being one of the world's largest logistics firms today, the role of Kuehne's company and family in the Third Reich is little known to the outside world. How did the billionaire pull this off so far? vanityfair.com/news/story/ric…
(5/5) This story is a coda to my book, Nazi Billionaires. For the reporting, I went to Montreal, Bremen, Hamburg, Munich and Amsterdam, did research in six archives, and interviewed dozens of people. It's my first magazine feature so I hope you'll read it! vanityfair.com/news/story/ric…
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