He was a member of Big Springs Baptist Church Geneva Ware and Hazel McBath; and great-grandson Heidi of Benton; great-grandchildren Alicia Mason and Kammarye Beck and Kailey Seaton; several nieces and nephews; and special friend in the chapel of Ralph Buckner Funeral Home with the Reverend George Bulson officiating Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens We invite you to send a message of condolence and view the Beck family guestbook at www.ralphbuckner.com Left: Herbert Quandt (Screenshot from “The Silence of the Quandts,” YouTube) Munich (Alessandra Schellnegger/alessandraschellnegger.com) Note: In addition to the examples listed here, Germany has hundreds of streets and monuments to individuals who were antisemites and/or Nazi Party members but did not fully meet the criteria for inclusion in this project They are listed at the end of this article This deeply ambivalent figure also has streets in Alfeld, Altrip, Bad Berleburg, Blaustein, Cottbus, Greifswald, Gunzenhausen, Homberg (Efze), Itzehoe, Koblenz, Lübbecke, Lünen, Mölln (Schleswig-Holstein), Ratzeburg, Töging am Inn and Ulm as well as a school in Großröhrsdorf. See nuanced Annals of Surgery article on Sauerbruch’s legacy Note: The street in Blaustein was added to this entry January 2023 Wolfsburg and 62 other locations – A bust and street honoring Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer of the eponymous car line and the Volkswagen Beetle. Porsche was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS Hitler speaks at a ceremony for laying the foundation stone of the Wolfsburg factory Vöhringen (Baden-Württemberg) and Weil der Stadt Freudenstadt and Tarp were added to this list in October 2022; streets in Dettingen an der Iller Kaisersesch and Rostock were added January 2023 the son of a concentration camp survivor who was forced to work for Krupp Freundeskreis Himmler members visit Dachau concentration camp On the far left is SS head Heinrich Himmler one of the principal architects of the Holocaust Flick has additional streets in Maxhütte-Haidhof Schwandorf and Teublitz; Weiss has a square in Hilchenbach Munich and five other locales – Industrial magnate Herbert Quandt (1910–1982) and his father Günther ran the AFA battery company. Herbert Quandt was AFA’s director of personnel and manager of Petrix GmbH The family’s wealth grew through appropriation of Jewish assets and the use of 50,000 slave laborers The conditions at Quandts’ plants, where concentration camp inmates were exposed to acids and poisonous gases with no protection and no drinking water, were so lethal that the company lost an average of 80 slaves a month, with a slave expected to live no more than six months. The Hanover plant had a gallows After the war, the Quandts largely avoided even nominal attention to their crimes. A Nuremberg prosecutor later stated that had his deeds been known Günther Quandt would’ve been in the dock for crimes against humanity Espelkamp – When it comes to the intersection of industry and the Holocaust, few corporations have as deep a connection as IG Farben The chemical conglomerate got slave labor from 30,000 Auschwitz inmates conducted horrific medical experiments on prisoners and manufactured Zyklon B Nuremberg held a separate trial for IG Farben; one of the men convicted was Max Ilgner (1899–1966) IG Farben board member and Wehrwirtschaftsführer (Third Reich military economic leader) Upon his release he got a job organizing the creation of Espelkamp then became a lobbyist and the CEO of a chemical company Espelkamp has a street for Ilgner; in 2020, the town refused to rename it. (Google translation here) the death rates in these camps approximated that of concentration camps the Pelikan plant festooned with swastikas for its 100th anniversary Hanover commissioned a report regarding landmarks named after Nazis; Beindorff’s street was recommended for renaming The city refused to change the name but pledged to create a memorial plaque for the slaves of Beindorff’s plant During WWII, the corporation was run by the brothers Werner, Klaus and Hans Bahlsen. All three were Nazi Party members and two (Werner and Klaus) funded the SS. The Bahlsen empire used 2,150 slaves in a biscuit factory it took over in Nazi-occupied Kyiv It also “employed” an additional 700 slaves in Germany mainly Eastern European women forcibly sent to toil in its Hanover plant Note: The Hanover cancer center was added to this entry January 2023 Ukrainian women being forcibly taken from Kyiv to work in Germany Update (October 2022): There is also a street named for Körber in Henstedt-Ulzburg a town of about 25,000 people about 15 miles north of Hamburg both Reimanns attempted to paint themselves as anti-Nazi activists after the war In 2016, the Reimanns – one of the wealthiest families in the world whose conglomerate owns Panera Bread and Krispy Kreme among others – commissioned a report about their wartime past Their crimes are disgusting,” said the family spokesperson a rare admission made without the typical caveats German dynasties employ to minimize their crimes concentration camp prisoners at forced labor Buchenwald inmates building the Weimar-Buchenwald rail line Messerschmitt (right) with Hermann Göring at a Messerschmitt factory Messerschmitt served two years in prison at which point he was released and promptly continued to run his firm Teningen – A street and a plaque on the Protestant church of Köndringen (Evangelische Kirche Köndringen) honoring aluminum magnate Emil Tscheulin (1884–1951) Tscheulin was an early adopter who played a crucial role in establishing the Nazi foothold in Teningen appropriated stolen Jewish businesses and heavily utilized slave labor In 2011, Teningen’s citizens initiated a review of Tscheulin’s bloody past; both the street and the church now have explanatory tablets about the profiteer It also omits the fact Bose was a Nazi Party member Wehrwirtschaftsführer and financial supporter of the SS Buchenwald prisoners building the Weimar-Buchenwald rail line steel tycoon Hermann Röchling (1872–1955) urgently petitioned Adolf Hitler with a problem: Röchling was worried the Nazis weren’t being antisemitic enough The fervent Third Reich supporter lived in the Saar industrial region on the border of France and Germany He was concerned that insufficient repression of Jews risked turning the Saar into “a Jewish nature reserve.” Rochling giving the Nazi salute; below right the billionaire CEO of Brose Fahrzeugteile Brose also has streets in Hallstadt and Weil im Schönbuch Kleinostheim – The corporate history section of the website for precious metals and technology company Heraeus admits it used forced laborers from seven countries and that Reinhard Heraeus (1903–1985) was one of the two cousins running the company during that time the corporation’s Kleinostheim subsidiary is located on Reinhard Heraeus Ring Ravensbrück prisoners weaving straw; above right inmates doing construction at a quarry near Buchenwald Fürstenfeldbruck and 45 other locales – A street for Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), the scientist responsible for giving Germany the infamous V-2 rocket used to shell civilian areas a Nazi Party member and decorated SS officer built his rockets using slave labor from the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp complex where inmates were forced to live and work underground Oberkotzau and Waldkreiburg were added to this entry in January 2023 Bernstadt auf dem Eigen (Wikimedia Commons) the scientist “knew exactly what the rocket would be used for.” Note: The school’s bust to Riedel was added to this entry in October 2022 Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko orchestrated the installation of a plaque to Yaroslav Stetsko (1912–1986) and his wife who had lived in Munich after WWII Stetsko was a leader in the Stepan Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) paramilitary which had collaborated with the Nazis and participated in the Holocaust Weissach – Added October 2022 — A kindergarten honoring Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche commonly known as Ferry Porsche (1909–1998) Like his father Ferdinand Porsche (see earlier entry) Ferry Porsche was a member of the Nazi Party and an SS officer involved with slave labor in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart “Vlasov’s organization consisted in large part of reassigned veterans from some of the most depraved SS and “security” units of the Nazis’ entire killing machine.”  Editor’s note: In addition to the above Germany has many streets and monuments to people whose World War II activities did not meet the criteria for inclusion in this project There’s also the strange case of numerous German towns with church bells dedicated to Hitler which gives a fascinating glimpse into battles over the country’s Nazi legacy Lev Golinkin is a regular contributor to the Forward whose work has also appeared in The New York Times I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward American Jews need independent news they can trust At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S rising antisemitism and polarized discourse This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism you rely on See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up Copyright © 2025 The Forward Association