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“My Father Joined The Nazi Party” - Ritz-Carlton Founder REVEALS Growing Up In Hitler’s Germany

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Born in wartime Germany, Horst Schulze shares how growing up amid chaos, loss, and fear shaped his discipline, optimism, and leadership. In this powerful clip with Patrick Bet-David, Schulze explains how his mother’s strength and faith forged the mindset behind his rise to leading The Ritz-Carlton.

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0:00.0

So let's get right into it.

0:01.0

I'm looking at it.

0:02.0

As I'm going through the story, I'm like, wait a minute.

0:05.0

He was born in 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany. Wasn't Stuttgart, but was Germany. Outside of Stuttgart and the wine area, you know, where wine, and apparently it's right next to the Luxembourg in France on that area where it's like perfect market to create wine. So to go from there

0:21.2

to where you are today,

0:22.5

I want to first go into the story

0:23.7

how everything got started.

0:25.1

When you were born,

0:26.4

what was Germany going through?

0:28.6

Start of the war.

0:30.2

Beginning of the war,

0:30.8

39.

0:32.0

In fact, my father was drafted

0:33.6

late 39

0:34.8

and was, came back in between but left permanently if you will in 41.

0:43.4

I got to know him. I got to meet him the next time when I was seven.

0:47.3

So you you don't you meet your father first. First I'm at seven years old. Well,

0:50.4

consciously met him. I mean I get that. Yeah. Yeah. No, in fact, In fact, I was playing with another kid in the mud heap somewhere. In the village, I live in the village. Somebody came around and go home, your dad came home. Go home, your dad came home. So I ran down the street, go home was a couple hundred yards, run there, and there was a bunches

1:12.1

of people assembled already, every neighbor, everybody in town.

1:15.5

That was the news when a guy came back from prison camp, you know, and it was, and he just

1:21.7

came back and I went through the masses.

1:24.0

I knew it was him.

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