WW2 DC Memorial

[David Morris]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/national/13MEMO.html

June 13, 2001
Memorial Builder Has Parent Link to Nazi Era

By ELAINE SCIOLINO

WASHINGTON, June 12 — One of the two American companies selected last week 
to build a World War II memorial on the Mall is owned by a German 
construction company that used concentration camp labor during World War II.

The two companies, Tompkins Builders of Washington and Grunley-Walsh 
Construction of Maryland, were awarded a $56 million contract for the first 
phase of the memorial. Tompkins is owned by J. A. Jones Inc., of Charlotte, 
N.C., which is wholly owned by Philipp Holzmann AG.

Holzmann, a German construction giant, was one of hundreds of German 
companies that used workers in concentration camps and is among dozens of 
companies that have agreed to contribute to a $4.5 billion fund to 
compensate Nazi-era slave and forced laborers.


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