I’m *shocked*.
The New York Times published a saccharine story about her last summer……
She’s Austrian.
You know who else was Austrian? He bought a lot of Zyklon B from IG Farben, the company that made the money for “Ms. Engelhorn’s fortune.”
The NYT story did not mention Zyklon B and glossed over her connection to the infamous chemical company that produced it by referring only to BASF, a component of IG Farben…….
……..BASF became part of the I.G. Farben chemical industry conglomerate in Germany in 1925. After the war, allies spun off the various component companies in IG Farben, which revived the BASF name.
In its report on her giveaway, Fortune danced around Zyklon B and said, “Engelhorn’s approach is a dramatic example of the ways in which heirs of dynastic wealth are choosing a different path than previous generations. Her ancestor Friedrich Engelhorn left BASF in the late 19th century and invested his fortune in the predecessor to Boehringer Mannheim, which was bought by Swiss pharma giant Roche Holdings AG for $11 billion in 1998. Part of her desire to give her fortune away came from the tax loopholes her family used during that sale, she said.”
Again, no mention of IG Farben.
BBC also overlooked where the money came from, reporting, “She is a descendant of Friedrich Engelhorn, the founder of German chemical and pharmaceutical company, BASF, and inherited millions when her grandmother died in September 2022.”
……..Reporters could have asked her if she felt any guilt over great-grandpa’s ties to the Nazi regime, which included his company firing Jewish workers. They fired Fritz Haber, the chemist who developed Zyklon B as a pesticide, because he was Jewish.
He received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1918 for his work. He also developed the poison gas German used in World War I, a war crime.
But why complicate news stories with interesting facts and insights?
Instead of exploring the messy details of how her money was made, the media agreed to promote the narrative of an heiress sacrificing her fortune for the greater good of taxing inheritances.
Not that she lived by her words. Engelhorn could have just given the Austrian government her money, found a job to support herself and gone on her merry way.
But no, she is giving her money away to lefty causes. The NYT story said, “There were some rules in place, according to the council’s website. The money could not be given to groups or people who are ‘unconstitutional, hostile or inhumane,’ and it could not be invested with for-profit institutions. The money also couldn’t be redistributed to group members or related parties.”
We cannot blame the Nazi atrocities on heirs to a fortune made from Zyklon B, just as we cannot blame her ancestors for Engelhorn’s support of eliminating Jews from the river to the sea.
She is just a symptom of the disease.
In World War II, France capitulated quickly to avoid a repeat of World War I which wiped out a generation of Frenchmen. That’s understandable, but turning over thousands of French Jews over to the Germans is not. Remember Robert Clary, the actor who played Frenchie on Hogan’s Heroes? He survived Buchenwald. 12 family members did not.
Now France has recognized Palestine.
We said never again. The devil had other plans.
Muzzies and Nazis have similar ideologies.
During WWII, they were pretty tight.
The Handschar (Khanjar, Scimitar or Sword) Muslim Waffen SS Divisions:
If you replaced Mohammad’s name with Hitler in the Koran, you’d have a fucking Islamic “Mein Kampf”. Both ideologies direct hatred at America, Jews, Christians, and Western freedoms. Muslims and Nazis have a lot in common with each other and come to think of it, they have a lot in common with the Democratic Party.
Muzzies want to turn the world into a Sharia concentration camp with Mutaween as the new SS.
“Allah Akbar” is the equivalent of “Heil Hitler”.
This war ain’t over by a long shot.