David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - Apple
David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - Spotify
David De Jong is a Dutch historian and investigative journalist.
Early in his career, he found himself in New York reporting for Bloomberg on hidden fortunes and the power of family offices all across the world - it was during this job he discovered a nondescript €18,000,000,000 German family office…
David eventually pulled that thread all the way back to the upper echelons of the Nazi party
This led him to move to Berlin and embark down a 4 year investigation into the dark and dusty vaults of Germanys corporate pst.
What he uncovered was Nazi wealth that has endured to this day which has its tentacles wrapped around many companies that you and I consume or interact with on a daily basis.
Today, we recorded a brief addendum to the story, David published in Vanity Fair recently a story of Kuehne + Nagel, one of the worlds largest freight forwarding companies, that is listed on the Swiss exchange, but a very German company indeed.
The podcast is about the central role Kuehne + Nagel played in the Third Reich. The politics of memory in Germany and the son of Kuehne + Nagel founder, Klaus-Michael Kuehne who is germanys richest man, the largest shareholder of Kuehne + Nagel and until today, still denying the companies dark origins.
Link To Nazi Billionaires Book
Link To Vanity Fair Article