'We were ashamed and white as sheets. There is nothing to gloss over. These crimes are disgusting'
There is no “glossing over” how the German conglomerate that now owns iconic American glazed Krispy Kreme donuts once made its dough — on the blood and forced labor orchestrated by the Nazi party, it conceded on Monday following a popular German tabloid’s published account.
Krispy Kreme Donuts Inc. was sold to a unit of JAB Holding for about $1.35 billion in 2016, a deal that took the donut maker with southern U.S. roots private. Among the reported World War II-era atrocities, the Bilt article said Russian civilians and French prisoners of war were exploited as forced laborers in the family’s factories and private villas. The father-son duo were known anti-Semites and donated to Adolf Hitler’s paramilitary SS force as early as 1931.
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