L’uomo più ricco della Germania vale 44 miliardi di dollari. La fonte della sua fortuna di famiglia? I nazisti lo sanno.

I’m from Hamburg and only recently learned that our local billionaire Klaus-Michael Kuehne (Kuehne + Nagel) has never really dealt with his family’s role during the Nazi era. His company profited directly back then, yet he refuses to acknowledge or document it.

Meanwhile Germany is busy renaming streets and confronting its colonial past — but somehow it seems acceptable for a living heir to ignore this chapter entirely. Feels like a double standard in a country that otherwise prides itself on being self-critical about history.

What also bothers me: if Hamburg actually wins the Olympic bid, there’s a real chance that some of the projects will end up financed with his money.

He’s been living in Switzerland since 1975 and has his company’s head office there, too. Doesn’t even keep an apartment in Hamburg as the tax authorities would immediately go after him.

Not “the richest man in Germany” at all, weird that they would title it like that.

Ah, good old Switzerland, neutral even towards the biggest of crimes if the price is right.

The allies allowed VW,BASF,BMW, and Audi to exist after WWII. Nuff said.

Hope Israel knows about this.