Episode 131: Friedrich Flick and the Flick Family

Grubstakers

English - January 15, 2020 05:21 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB - ★★★★ - 405 ratings
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We take a deep dive on two of the world's youngest billionaires, Victoria-Katharina Flick and Karl Friedrich Flick (born 1999). How did they get so rich? Well, hard work and inheriting their grandfather's slave labor war crimes fortune. That's right: many of the people who carried out and profited from the holocaust were able to pass on the profits they accumulated first to their children and then to their grandchildren. The effects of that stolen wealth are still being felt today, but remember the rich are only rich because they do more for society than the rest of us!

Some of the sources used:

The Book "Nazi Steel" by Marcus O. Jones

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/world-s-youngest-billionaires-are-shadowed-by-ghosts-of-german-past
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-inadequacies-of-justice/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/22/germany.secondworldwar
https://web.archive.org/web/20041219072628/http://www.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_flick_print.asp