Financial Times OCT 4 2025
German logistics billionaire faces questions over Nazi-era legacy
Klaus-Michael Kuehne has repeatedly declined to address growing evidence of his company’s wartime conduct Link
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taz v. 4.8.2025: Interview with Henning Bleyl on the Kühne Opera in Hamburg
»Covering up history could hardly be more demonstrative and obvious«
Tagesschau podcast from March 13, 2025
Kühne+Nagel and the Nazi legacy: Unwanted reappraisal?
ABC Radio national (Australia), October 9, 2024
The dark secret of Germany’s richest man
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/religionandethicsreport/the-dark-secret-of-germany-s-richest-man/104332672 From minute 16:35
JACOBIN (NY) dated October 24, 2024, German edition
The Nazi assets of Kühne + Nagel
Alternatives Economique (Paris), September 28, 2024
Aux origines nazies de la première fortune d’Allemagne
International press reviews Sept. 2024
Corriere della Sera, Diario Red; tageszeitung.ch etc. on Kühne’s »politics of history«
Tageszeitung (one of Switzerland’s main newspapers): https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kuehne-nagel-chef-vertuscht-nazigeschichte-des-weltkonzerns-686505808662
Corriere della Sera (Italy’s largest newspaper): https://www.corriere.it/esteri/24_settembre_13/il-tedesco-piu-ricco-ha-un-patrimonio-di-44-miliardi-che-arrivano-dal-padre-nazista-rubati-a-70-mila-ebrei-5554a5ec-157b-417c-842b-6c8c9a1a0xlk.shtml
Süddeutsche Zeitung (one of Germany’s largest newspapers): https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/klaus-michael-kuehne-lux.SqDrMjmbvCiVuTmqkBv1wC?reduced=true
Diario Red (a major Spanish publication): https://www.diario.red/articulo/internacional/hombre-mas-rico-alemania-pasado-nazi-familia/20240918204331035548.html
T-online (a big German online medium): https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/gesellschaft/id_100491330/hsv-investor-nazi-enthuellungen-um-reichsten-deutschen-klaus-michael-kuehne.html
Taz (Henning’s publication that started it all): https://taz.de/Vanity-Fair-ueber-Klaus-Michael-Kuehne/!6034426/
Morgenpost (Hamburg’s main tabloid): https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/klaus-michael-kuehne-haelt-brisante-ns-studie-ueber-seinen-vater-unter-verschluss/
ND (Germany’s socialist newspaper): https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185408.ns-erbe-schmutzig-reich.html
David de Jong, Vanity Fair, 12.09.2024
The Richest Man in Germany Is Worth $44 Billion. The Source of His Family Fortune? The Nazis Know.
Untiefen, the Hamburg city magazine, on the anniversary of the memorial inauguration
No final stroke
kunststadt_stadtkunst No. 71 August 2024
Blanks and gaps in history: The Bremen »Aryanization« memorial
Veronika Duma »Robbery, Restitution, and Remembrance in Germany« - published De Gruyter Oldenbourg online September 6, 2024. With a classification of the Bremen memorial.
Robbery, Restitution, and Remembrance in Germany
Abstract: The essay draws a panorama of the current state of the Holocaust compensation and provenance research in Germany. It discusses the German politic of »Wiedergutmachung«, the recent cases of restitution, the public debate about commemoration and the challenges when it comes to restituting objects robbed 80 years ago. On the one hand, Germany - especially with regards to restitution measures up to the 1960s - is used as a role model in the international discourse on restitution issues. On the other hand, there is also a history of critique accompanying the German »Widergutmachungspolitik«. The essay argues that future research should analytically separate the different levels of the history of compensation: the official German discourse and wording of commemoration politics, the history of actual payments, the research and remembrance done by institutions like universities or memorials, and the initiatives of survivor organizations and civil society. They follow their own agendas and often are contradictory.
German Press Agency from 05.08.2024
The difficult handling of Nazi looted property
Until a year ago, it was simply a wastepaper basket for scraps of paper and discarded notes. The basket made of rattan and lacquered wood fitted in well with the Bremen Senator for Finance’s room. For a long time, nobody suspected anything about its past. Then it turned out that the waste garbage can had probably been snatched by National Socialists. Decades later, this can no longer be proven for certain, says Gundula Rentrop, a museum educator who researched the history of Bremen’s finance department until she retired. But the suspicion is that the wastepaper basket was banished from the senator’s room to the basement of the finance department.
The complete article by Mirjam Uhrich (dpa) about the work of Gundula Rentrop, Marcus Kenzler and Susanne Kiel can be found here.
RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg), July 19, 2024
Logistics company in NS: Frustration over Kuehne + Nagel’s reprocessing
The logistics company Kühne + Nagel did not have its Nazi past scientifically investigated. As a result, Germany’s first »Aryanization« memorial was erected in Bremen. The frustration of the Jewish community is still great today. By Jannis Hartmann
Audio report on Nazi companies by Jannis Hartmann rbb24 inforadio
and another article on companies in the Nazi era by Jannis Hartmann: »Heavy stuff«
Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcast from September 11, 2023
New Bremen memorial commemorates »Aryanization«
Jewish General from September 11, 2023
Bremen »Aryanization« memorial inaugurated
https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/bremer-arisierungs-mahnmal-eingeweiht/
die tageszeitung (taz), taz-nord from Monday, September 11, 2023
Commemoration under the company headquarters
The case study of the logistics group Kühne+Nagel and its consequences
This is the story: 4 square meters of truth4 square meters of truth
Weser Kurier online from 08.09.2023 Preview
»It is not an intrusive memorial«
Jewish General Online 04.09.2023
Bremen »Aryanization« memorial is inaugurated
https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/allgemein/bremer-arisierungs-mahnmal-wird-eingeweiht/
September 04, 2023, Untiefen-The city magazine against Hamburg
The sting is in the tail: Bremen’s ‘Aryanization’ memorial has arrived
taz, 01.09.2023
Dedication of the memorial in Bremen: A long road to success
dpa 29.08.2023
DSM launches database for looted Jewish property
The Provenance Research team at the German Maritime Museum (DSM) / Leibniz Institute of Maritime History is launching the first database that can be used to search for property confiscated from Jewish refugees during the Nazi era. The official launch of the LostLift database is September 1 - the day on which the Second World War began in 1939.
More information can be found here.
The LostLift database can be accessed at lostlift.dsm.museum