On January 24, 2019, Sherman Industries presented its relocation plan to Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Randall Woodfin’s Department of Planning, Engineering, and Permits (PEP). Woodfin, who is a first term mayor, blessed the plan without doing his homework on Sherman Industries and its global parent company, the HeidelbergCement Group. During World War II, the HeidelbergCement Group and other German cement companies became a vital part of the Nazis’ war and death machine.