The 25-year-old heiress to the German biscuit empire behind Choco Leibniz biscuits has apologized for saying the family business “did nothing wrong” in its use of forced labor under Nazi rule.
Verena Bahlsen, whose father owns Bahlsen, the company behind Germany’s most famous biscuits, has been accused of attempting to downplay the hardship of the 200 forced laborers the business employed during the Second World War.
