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...17th Century there was a Krupp in Essen who made a neat parcel of money by selling small arms to the opposing armies in the Thirty Years' War. For two centuries Krupps were modest grocers, moneylenders and ironmasters. Then Prussia placed an order for solid shot with Friedrich Krupp's ironworks and they began to make money in a big way. Since then, war by war, Krupps have grown richer. It is the weary conclusion of German Exile Bernhard Menne, whose biography of the Krupp family was published in the U. S. last week, that there will...
...Krupp cannon, as a delicate compliment to her, were called Big Berthas.) The Kaiser permitted her husband to change his name to Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach "to ensure at least an appearance of continuity of the Essen dynasty." Krupp von Bohlen built model huts for his workers but he was always "master in his own house"-meaning that he permitted no unions. Between 1914 and 1918 Krupp's profits were magnificent. But when the Kaiser came to address Krupp employes in the last days of the War and cried, "We will fight and hold out to the last...
...largest manufacturing building in Europe is the so-called Hindenburg Hall of the Krupp Works at Essen, measuring 1,000 feet square. In it 7,000 men were employed during the War making artillery, today 3,500 fill it building locomotives. No women are allowed in the Krupp Works-not even the Duchess of Windsor...
With the respective cliques of General Goring, Propagandist Goebbels and Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley all struggling for mastery of German economic and financial policy last week, Dr. Schacht himself went off to Essen and in this Krupp stronghold addressed a meeting of 400 directors of German savings banks. Some of them came out convinced they had heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue...
Enough of German Art and enough of fake war was what Benito Mussolini had had by this time. He wanted to inspect one of the most closely guarded set of secrets in Germany: the mighty Krupp munitions works at Essen. Only trouble with this was that, instead of speeding a few miles to Berlin as planned, the Dictators would have to travel clear across Germany again to Essen in the west, then cross it once more to Berlin. But what Mussolini wants Mussolini wants. To a microphone leaped German Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, broadcast...