"Der Aufstieg der Quandts" helps to understand the role of the German industrial complex during the complex years 1933-1945, as well as during the following cold war years. It also provides the serious researcher with an excellent insight in the daily managment of a vast industrial complex, the techniques applied and the path chosen.
What makes the book especially unique is that for the first time the Quandt family has opened their archives to a serious researcher. A must have for anyone interested in the development of the German industrial complex as a whole and the role that it played under rapidly changing political climates, from World War 1, through the Weimar years, under National Socialism and the Cold War.