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They made a profit from the Holocaust
PETER FROST investigates some of today’s well-known companies that made money from the Holocaust
[Kjetil Ree]

AS WE commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday January 27, it is appropriate that we remember the millions of people who died in the nazi death camps. The nazis built these camps across Germany, Austria and Poland.

The camps brought death to many groups of people hated by the nazis. First were the Jews of course and millions of them perished in the death camps as part of what Hitler and his Nazi Party described as the final solution.

As well as Jews, the nazis sent many other groups to death in the camps including Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Serbs. 

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