From Bloomberg: In the spring of 1945, Harald Quandt, a 23-year-old officer
in the German Luftwaffe, was being held as a prisoner of war by Allied forces
in the Libyan port city of Benghazi
when he received a farewell letter from his mother, Magda Goebbels -- the wife
of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
The hand-written note confirmed the devastating news he had
heard weeks earlier: His mother had committed suicide with her husband on May
1, after slipping their six children cyanide capsules in Adolf Hitler’s
underground bunker in Berlin .
Quandt was released from captivity in 1947. Seven years
later, he and his half-brother Herbert -- Harald was the only remaining child
from Magda Goebbels’ first marriage -- would inherit the industrial empire
built by their father, Guenther Quandt, which had produced Mauser firearms and
anti-aircraft missiles for the Third Reich’s war machine. Among their most
valuable assets at the time was a stake in car manufacturer Daimler AG. (DAI)
They bought a part of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) a few years later. While the half-brothers passed away decades
ago, their legacy has endured. Herbert’s widow, Johanna Quandt, 86, and their
children Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt, have remained in the public eye as
BMW’s dominant shareholders. The billionaire daughters of Harald Quandt --
Katarina Geller-Herr, 61, Gabriele Quandt, 60, Anette-Angelika May-Thies, 58,
and 50-year-old Colleen-Bettina Rosenblat-Mo -- have kept a lower profile.
Read all about it at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-27/nazi-goebbels-step-grandchildren-are-hidden-billionaires.html
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