A convicted Nazi war-economy leader rebuilt his own corporation largely unpunished.

Evidence

Wilhelm Zangen, `Leader of the War Economy’ (Wehrwirtschaftsführer), who had been classed as incriminated after the war and sentenced to a prison term, became chairman of the board of directors in one of his own former Mannesmann factories at the beginning of 1949, against the protests of the works council, and the trustee administration also put him in charge of liquidating the old Mannesmann company. He immediately began to put the old corporation back together. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 506

Categorization

• XREF: Also appeared in the Frankfurt School chapter’s discussion of postwar industrial continuity; Verdict on Vichy and other occupation studies make the same point about elite persistence.