He and his fellow slave laborers assembled batteries for German submarines in the Afa plant, which was owned by German industrialist Günther Quandt. The men handled toxic heavy metals without any ...

During the war, Quandt’s AFA manufactured batteries for U-Boat submarines and V-2 rocket launchers. His BKIW – which had been renamed Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken AG in 1936 ...

His main form of manufacturing soon concentrated on the production of batteries at the AFA Battery Works in Hanover and Hagen (today: Varta). Günther Quandt was quick to seize the profitable ...

Günther Quandt also attended the two-hour speech by ... and Neuengamme with Günther’s AFA, Porsche’s Volkswagen, and Dr. Oetker. By the end of the decade, many convicted Nazi war criminals ...

Guenther Quandt was a member of the Nazi party and benefited from its 'Aryanisation' programme by taking over Jewish firms His wife, Magda Behrend Rietschel, later divorced him and married Joseph ...

Johanna Quandt, the billionaire widow whose husband saved Germany’s BMW from bankruptcy half a century ago and laid the foundations for the company to become the world’s largest maker of ...