A composite image showing World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab and a man in military uniform is circulating in social media posts claiming it shows his father, who was purportedly a high-ranking Nazi close to Adolf Hitler. However, the man in military uniform is a German major general called Walther Dybilasz, not Eugen Schwab. Historians say there is no evidence that Eugen Schwab was a high-ranking Nazi.

A composite image of two men, one in military uniform, was shared in a Singapore-based Telegram group here on May 27, 2022.

"Left: founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab," reads part of the caption.

"On the right is his father, industrialist and fascist Eugen Schwab, who was close to Hitler.

"Klaus was born in Nazi Germany in 1938. At the time, his father ran the strategic company 'Escher-Wyss' and ran his own concentration camp, where prisoners had to work for free. The income from this company gave Klaus Schwab a comfortable existence.”

Klaus Schwab is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), famed for its annual meeting of global business, government and civil society leaders in Davos, Switzerland.

Klaus Schwab names Eugen Wilhelm Schwab as his father in his book "Stakeholder Capitalism".

According to German-language book "Gastgeber der Maechtigen" (Host of the Powerful), Klaus Schwab was born in 1938 in Ravensburg, in southern Germany, where his father ran a factory for Swiss engineering company Escher Wyss.

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