Berthold beitz biography of albert
Berthold Beitz was one of the few Germans who provided refuge and risked their lives to save Jews....
Berthold Beitz
Berthold Beitz was one of the few Germans who provided refuge and risked their lives to save Jews.
Alfried Krupp und Berthold Beitz.
The son of a wealthy Nazi-sympathizing family, civil engineer Beitz was a 27-year-old junior executive at Royal Dutch Shell's Hamburg office when the war broke out. One evening in 1941, his grandfather, a Nazi notable, took him to dinner at the lavish home of German munitions magnate Alfried Krupp.
Among the guests was Reinhard Heydrich, one of Hitler's senior henchmen. Germany had just attacked the Soviet Union, and the Wehrmacht, Heydrich noted, was taking over oil refineries in western Poland. Enthusiastically, the young Beitz offered his services and was named a director of the Karpaten Ol company in Boryslaw, Poland.
Prior to Krupp's death from lung cancer, his assistant, Berthold Beitz, worked to transfer control of the company to a Stiftung (foundation), called the.Beitz soon found that while there was relatively little oil in the mountain region, there were a lot of Jews - almost 50 percent of the population. Most were in ghetto work camps, a fact that Beitz admits didn't bother him at first.
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