Karl Amson Joel, a textile merchant and grandfather of American musician Billy Joel
He benefited greatly from the Nazi forced hostile takeover of Jewish merchants including the 1938 acquisition of Karl Amson Joel's retail business in Berlin.
After the rise to power of Nazism (1933), Joel was increasingly discriminated against by the regional Nazi Party leaders, especially Julius Streicher.
Karl Amson Joel (1889–1982), German-Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer
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