On 26 September 2024, Südzucker held a scientific conference at the MARCHIVUM in Mannheim, hosted by the Frankfurt Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (GUG), to mark the beginning of a public and active examination of the company's past during the Nazi era. Südzucker had already commissioned the Göttingen historian Prof. Dr Manfred Grieger in 2022 to conduct a scientific review of the company's history between 1933 and 1945. His study will be published by Wallstein Verlag in spring 2025. In his lecture in Mannheim, Prof. Grieger presented his research results to date for the first time to a scientific audience and Südzucker
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