Company Admits Insuring Auschwitz Barracks, Buildings

Europe’s largest insurance company has acknowledged that it insured barracks and other facilities at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, a news magazine reported Sunday.

“We brought guilt upon ourselves during the Third Reich, but we never enriched ourselves from the Holocaust,” Herbert Hansmeyer, a board member of the German firm Allianz, told Der Spiegel.

Allianz and other companies sold fire, liability and accident insurance to Nazi SS units that operated Auschwitz and other concentration camps, covering such things as supply depots, motor pools and barracks, Der Spiegel said.