Jan Böhmermann took a closer look at Volkswagen and covered everything from the Nazi era to the present.
Many users are appalled in the social networks.
Munich - The TV satirist Jan Böhmermann likes to work on the big ones.
His humiliating poem about Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(“Star at every gangbang celebration”) triggered a veritable state crisis in 2016 and ended up in front of the BGH.
Most recently, Böhmermann's attacks hit
Jeff Bezos
and the Quandt family.
The
Amazon
founder made three billion dollars when selling a block of shares at the beginning of November, while the company also pays no taxes in the United States, said Böhmermann.
And with a view to the
Quandt family
, Böhmermann said that the
BMW
* main owners had just granted themselves 760 million euros in dividends after the carmaker had received state short-time work money in the spring.
On Friday, the multiple Grimme Prize winner struck again in his new show ZDF Magazin Royale.
And this time it got
Volkswagen
*.
He loves
VW
, assured the 39-year-old at the beginning of his contribution and then set off on a nearly 15-minute parforce ride through the dark sides of the company's history, from the Nazi era to the new plant in
Xinjiang, China, in 2013
.
VW: Parforce ride through the dark sides of the company's history
First, Böhmermann recalled the founding of the company, Adolf Hitler's order to
Ferdinand
Porsche
to build an affordable Volkswagen and the deployment of foreign and forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners at
VW
.
Later, Porsche personally urged SS chief Heinrich Himmler to “have even more concentration camp prisoners made available”.
After the war,
from 1953 onwards
,
VW
had
no qualms about working with the military dictatorship in
Brazil
.
In addition, Böhmermann recorded an interview with long-time
VW
boss
Carl Hahn
, who said of corporate policy in those years that “people tried to build automobiles.
Regardless of who rules the country.
We leave that to the natives ”.
Humor is not when everyone laughs!
- Jan 🦠 MASK ON 😷 WASH HANDS 🦠 Böhmermann 🤨 (@janboehm) November 15, 2020
VW: "A completely normal psychopathic top manager"
Ferdinand Piech
,
who died in 2019,
does not
fare
well in the contribution either.
The legendary
VW
boss was a "completely normal psychopathic top manager", said Böhmermann and garnished that with an excerpt from a press conference.
“Whenever it comes to war, there are fewer in the end, and there are always winners and losers,” said Piech shortly after his appointment to the top of the group in 1993.
"And I intend to be the winner with our partner (...)."
Böhmermann also recalled a report by
Spiegel
, according to which the incumbent Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
Stephan Weil
had
initially sent
his government
statement on the
2017
diesel scandal
to the group lawyers for examination.
As deputy head of the
VW
supervisory board, he was actually there to control the company.
"But strange, somehow it looks like it's the other way around," said Böhmermann.
VW: CEO Herbert Diess also gets his fat off
And then the Bremer also took on the
VW plant
in
Xingjiang
.
According to media reports, around one million
Uyghurs
are said to be
imprisoned
in the western Chinese province
.
According to an overlaid Google map, there are said to be
25 labor camps and prisons for this ethnic group
in the vicinity of the
VW plant
.
In addition, the editors of the satirical magazine recorded a TV interview with
VW
boss
Herbert Diess
*.
When asked by a TV reporter whether he, Diess, had no knowledge of the re-education camps, the VW boss said narrow-lipped that he was "unknown" about it.
@Janboehm is working on Volkswagen and its history of human rights violations today in #zdfmagazin, including this graphic: Labor camp near a VW factory in China.
https://t.co/zXL7rdgC7H pic.twitter.com/Y6u2LgAtDK
- Daniel Drepper (@danieldrepper) November 13, 2020
At the end of the article, Böhmermann recalls an article from the
Handelsblatt
.
The business newspaper reported in March 2019 that Diess had said at an internal event in front of the Group's top managers, "Ebit makes you free".
Ebit is the result of interest and taxes.
Many executives, however, felt reminded of the expression “Arbeit macht frei” that was posted at the entrance gates to National Socialist concentration camps and reacted with horror.
Diess was
reprimanded
for this shortly afterwards by the
VW
supervisory board and apologized on
for the unsuccessful language.
VW: Excitement on social networks
Böhmermann's contribution caused a sensation in social networks.
The post has already been viewed over half a million times
on
Youtube
alone
and received around 26,000 likes.
"At
VW there
is definitely a good atmosphere in the press department," speculates a user on Twitter.
“Pale unshaven boy must have shaved again,” jokes another.
But many users see the thoroughly subjective compilation of VW history and long-known facts quite critical.
He did not know that
VW was
"so unscrupulous," writes a
user.
Another said: "The labor camp in #China around the local #
VW
-Werk.
The #
Volkswagen
-hefetage around Herbert #Diess knows nothing of course ... like the #Dieselskandal ".
And for another Twitter user, the brand is now simply out of the question: “Ok, after the current episode #zdfmagazin, the next car will NOT be a
#VW
.
What a shame, with such a friendly small family business. "