German family that owns Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread to donate $11,000,000 after learning of Nazi past: 'There is nothing to gloss over. These crimes are disgusting'
In a four-page report, the Bild newspaper reported that documents uncovered in Germany, France and the U.S. reveal that Albert Reimann Sr. and Albert Reimann Jr. used Russian civilians and French POWs as forced laborers.
The father and son, who died in 1954 and 1984, did not talk about the Nazi era and the family had thought that all of the company's connection to the Nazis had been revealed in a 1978 report, Harf said. "We were all ashamed and turned as white as the wall," he said."There is nothing to gloss over. These crimes are disgusting."
In 2000, the German government approved a 10 billion mark fund to provide compensation, with half the money coming from companies like Bayer, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Daimler-Benz, Volkswagen, and AEG.During World War II, the company used forced laborers in its industrial chemicals company. It was not clear how many were used overall, but Bild said in 1943, 175 forced laborers were being used, about 30 percent of its workforce.
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