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Many of the companies with these ties acknowledge them and apologize for them. Unfortunately, monetary reparation is very rare. Among the families with ties to the Nazi regime in the past are BMW's Quandt family and L'Oréal's Bettencourt family.

Karthik Ramana, a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford said:

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"With the passage of time, it gets increasingly difficult to make a legal argument around reparations, unless the claimant can show conclusive proof of theft by the defendant's ancestors. What potential claimants are left with then is moral suasion—and given the stakes for incumbents, I wouldn't hold my breath in expectation of a flood of reparations."