Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1943
Deaths of approximately 15,500 prisoners
Historical material cited for DAW estimates that roughly 15,500 concentration-camp prisoners died as a result of overwork, starvation, violence, disease, and deliberately inhumane working conditions in the enterprise's operations.
1942
Integration with Nazi extermination and plunder systems
DAW-related economic operations received and processed goods taken from victims of the Operation Reinhard extermination camps and used property seized from Jewish owners.
1939
Systematic concentration-camp forced labor
DAW's production network used concentration-camp prisoners and Jewish forced laborers under violent and degrading conditions. The enterprise's commercial output was inseparable from the SS detention and forced-labor system.