The editor of Rowohlt is the grandson of the founder, the founder Rowohlt was an active high level member of the Nazi party who worked alongside Goebbels.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Rowohlt#1919.E2.80.931943
The founding Rowohlt also employed Jewish writers before the Nazis took over, but almost immediately abandoned them once politically expedient. Life repeats itself.
Whitewashed obit.