Episode 131: Friedrich Flick and the Flick Family
We take a deep dive on two of the world's youngest billionaires, Victoria-Katharina Flick and Karl Friedrich Flick (born 1999). How did they get so rich? Well, hard work and inheriting their grandfather's slave labor war crimes fortune. That's right: many of the people who carried out and profited from the holocaust were able to pass on the profits they accumulated first to their children and then to their grandchildren. The effects of that stolen wealth are still being felt today, but remember the rich are only rich because they do more for society than the rest of us!
Citations:
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Nazi Steel by Marcus O. Jones (Naval Institute Press)A study of the interaction between private and official interests in planning and executing the programs of the Nazi government.
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Background on the Flick family.
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The Inadequacies of Justice (Los Angeles Review of Books)Essay on the inadequate prosecution of Friedrich Flick.
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Wealth Built on Slave Labor (Guardian)Article on the slave labor used by Flick during WWII.