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Sorry, what does the "Power Corporation of Canada" addition mean? Some verb or something is missing ... -- till we *) 21:07 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Small Question: What's "Groupe Bruxelles Lambert [...] acquired control of Bertelsmann AG." supposed to mean? Bertelsmann is owned by three major shareholders - the Bertelsmann Foundation, The Mohn family, and Bruxelles Lambert. The Mohn family and the Bertelsmann Foundation are pretty much the same thing (BVG) and control 75% of Bertelmann AG. Which means, Bruxelles Lambert has voting rights (25%), but that's not really important, as there are only two parties that are allowed to vote, and the other party's vote weighs in at 75%. I'd say Bruxelles Lambert owns 25.1%, but has _no_ control...?

The topic "Illegal fly posting" is not relevant and should be omitted.

Important article

This is an important corporation whose vast reach in media touches us daily.

Gruner & Jahr magazine publisher that is biggest in Europe and 2nd biggest world wide

Direct Group world's largest book and music club group

...no articles?

Thus, I have added this article and section as a priority to update and expand. ~ RoboAction 01:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The History section here needs re-organising, the 'Nazi-Past' section includes all post WW2 information on the company, most of which has nothing to do with nazis

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I've fixed that. --Edibility (talk) 01:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merged firms

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahee7 (talk • contribs) 06:44, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

According to the NYT and thw Wik article on Random House, the RH and Penguin deal went through on the first of July 2013. The exact nature of the "merger" seems a bit complicated (i.e., Bertelsmann owns less than 100% of the company), so someone who understands business should put this information into the article.

Bertelsmann in Fascism

Bertelsmann today sells "Mein Kampf" outside of Germany ...

Bertelsmann president Mohn was an SS Schutzstaffel Member ...

Bertelsmann become a world concern between 1933 and 1945 ...

Bertelsmann produced the Arier Nachweis and the Ahnennachweise for the Arier Nachweis between 1920 and 1945 ...

http://www.focus.de/kultur/medien/media-box-bertelsmann-und-mein-kampf-appell-ohne-wirkung_aid_178331.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpGiY9eGWuY

Bertelsmann produced books about world war 2 ...

http://www.amazon.de/Grabler-Bomben-Bertelsmann-Seiten-Bilder/dp/B003TC0GGO

here some books from bertelsmann

https://books.google.de/books?id=KgjnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=bertelsmann+mit+bomben+und+mgs+%C3%BCber+polen&source=bl&ots=ZigzVeM7zi&sig=mpQxwURnlZ2tLdT9uSsnHeEtDjc&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTgKahUKEwippcetvbrHAhXHvhQKHXi5DT8#v=onepage&q=bertelsmann%20mit%20bomben%20und%20mgs%20%C3%BCber%20polen&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.225.40.175 (talk) 15:30, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bertelsmann produced books like "narvik", "from kiel to narvik", "the campaign of 18 days", ...

http://history.bertelsmann.com/img/msimages/msimage273.jpg

RTL is a part of bertelsmann ... so it could be, that RTL is biased pro-fascist ...

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As shown by the marker at the beginning, this article has not been updated for years. For example, information about the corporate structure, divisions and Bertelsmann in the Third Reich were missing or outdated. So we've translated the German Wikipedia article and posted it here. I hope this is appropriate? If you have any questions, especially regarding references in German language, please let us know. --Matthias at Bertelsmann (talk) 12:14, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This article is too much into details. Should be shortened. --217.9.114.198 (talk) 09:11, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]