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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

39. Harald Quandt Died a Billionaire

10-year-old Harald Quandt at his mother’s remarriage to Joseph Goebbels. Wikimedia

Harald Quandt was Magda Goebbels’ son from an earlier marriage to an industrialist before she met and married Joseph Goebbels. After the war, Harald went to work for his biological father’s business – a holding group of over 200 companies, including a 30% stake in BMW, and a 10% share of Daimler Benz. When his father died in 1954, Harald’s inheritance made him one of West Germany’s richest men. He proved himself a shrewd businessman, and when he died in a plane crash in 1967, he left his offspring a fortune of about 1.5 billion Deutsche Mark. Today, his descendants are worth an estimated U$6 billion.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.