Family who owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Panera Bread learned that their ancestors supported Adolf Hitler and used civilians and prisoners of war as forced laborers to work in their factory: 'We were ashamed.”
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The claims against the Reimann family were made Sunday in a four-page report by the German tabloid Bild, and confirmed by family spokesman Peter Harf.published Tuesday that was translated to English."These crimes are disgusting."It's not clear how many laborers were used, but Bild reported in 1943 that they made up about 30 percent of the workforce at the factory.
He also said the Reimann family hired a historian professor at the University of Munich in 2014 to investigate their family's Nazi ties after finding documents belonging to Reimann Sr., who died in 1954. Reimann Jr. died in 1984. The family said it plans to donate $11.3 million to a charity, but have not yet decided which one, and will also publish a book with the professor's findings.
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