Aldi founders were Nazis
Aldi co-founder Theo had been sent to fight under Rommel in the Afrika Korps, and sources vary on whether he was captured in Italy or Tunisia. HIs brother Karl was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of the Third Reich, and was sent to the Russian front.
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