The complicity of the CEOs

A conversation with journalist David de Jong about the secret Nazi pasts of many of modern Germany's great fortunes -- and his warning for American business leaders

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler admiring a model of the Volkswagen car with the designer Ferdinand Porsche (left), 1938.

The journalist David de Jong has just published a devastating investigation detailing the complicity of some of Germany’s biggest industrial fortunes in its Nazi past.

Germany has long been the great exception to the rule that countries don’t…