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The family fortune is estimated at 33 billion euros. The holding company Jab Holding has shares in brands such as “Clearasil”, “Calgon”, coffee “Jacobs”, “Wella” and “Max Factor”.
Family members of Rayman before Hitler donated a large sum to the Nazis / photo Bundesarchiv
Representatives of one of the richest families in Germany, Rayman is going to donate 10 million euros to one of the organizations working to overcome the consequences of the crimes of the Nazi regime, after they hired a historian that he investigated the activities of the family firm in the years of Nazism.
On Sunday, March 24, according to the publication Bild am Sonntag, Deutsche Welle reports.
The decision was taken after invited to study the history of the firm Professor Paul Erker told the family members of Rayman on how to work the firm in the years of Nazism.
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“After the story of Professor Bay window we had no words. We felt ashamed, we sat there white as chalk. There is nothing to embellish. These crimes are disgusting,” – said present at the meeting, one of the leaders belonging to the family holding company JAB Holding Peter Harf.
Family members Rayman in 1931, before Hitler came to power, donated a large sum to the Nazis.
“We are pure Aryan family enterprise with more than a hundred years of history. Its owners – a strong adherents of the racial theory” – wrote in 1937, one of the family members Rayman Heinrich Himmler.
At the family-owned factories used the labor of French prisoners and OST-Arbeiter in respect of these groups committed serious crimes. The war brought the family Rayman prosperity on military contracts earned a lot of money.
“We feel relieved that the truth came out,” – commented the representatives of the family.
The family fortune is estimated at 33 billion euros. The holding company Jab Holding has shares in brands such as “Clearasil”, “Calgon”, coffee “Jacobs”, “Wella” and “Max Factor”.
Answering the question of why Rimani do the history of their company, only 70 years after the crimes, a response was received that in the years of the Nazi regime, their company was a small company, working under a different name.