This video is the film Das Schweigen der Quandts; in German.
By Emma Bode and Brigitte Fehlau in Germany:
The Silence of the Quandts: The history of a wealthy German familyThe Quandt family has historical links to the military production business Dynamit Nobel.A documentary film by Eric Friedler and Barbara Siebert
29 November 2008
A remarkable film, The Silence of the Quandts, which won the Hans Joachim Friedrichs prize for television journalism, deals with the unscrupulous rise of one of Germany’s richest and most influential families. The Quandts own 46.6 percent of the auto manufacturer BMW, have an estimated fortune of €20 billion and are implicated in the crimes of Hitler’s Nazi regime. Today, against the background of a financial and economic crisis that evokes the events of the 1930s, the film is of particular relevance.
The Quandts owe their wealth directly to their support of the Nazi regime and the bloody exploitation in the concentration camps—something the family is unwillingly to discuss. No family member has ever been indicted for the crimes that occurred in their company-owned concentration camps, nor has the family paid any compensation to the victims who survived.
