North America’s largest Jewish federation is honoring the chief executive of a media conglomerate that published propaganda for the Nazis. Bertelsmann has contributed to a German fund compensating wartime slave laborers, and its subsidiary, Random House, recently pledged $1 million to a project encouraging Holocaust survivors to publish their memoirs.
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