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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told, the Führer will get arms for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loot | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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