Rheinmetall, Thyssenkrupp and 46 other German companies recognize their "historic responsibility" in the "Nazi crimes"

The country’s largest military firm, Rheinmetall, explains this in a statement highlighting that in the agreed text “they set a clear limit against hatred, exclusion and anti-Semitism.” This “alliance of business leaders,” as Rheinmetall calls it, and that it has, among others, companies from Bayer, BASF, Siemens, Thyssenkurpp, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Hugo Boss, Porsche and BMW, “demands to take collective responsibility, to preserve the less…