Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Dr. Schmitt the "Corporative State'' was to be achieved by dividing German business into twelve groups, each with a "Group Leader" sitting in the Grand Economic Council. This division has been made and on the Council sit Steel Tycoons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. Beyond this point, however, the Nazi "Corporative State'' is still on the shelf...
Abroad rumors have buzzed insistently that Tycoons Krupp von Bohlen and Thyssen were behind the recent blood purge of Nazi radicals (TIME, July 9) and now dominate Adolf Hitler. Best opinion among informed U. S. correspondents in Berlin was summed up last week as follows: "Herr Thyssen has lost much of the influence he enjoyed during the Party's fight for supremacy, when he was National Socialism's greatest champion among Big Business. Neither Thyssen nor Krupp von Bohlen is able to force his own ideas upon the Party, though their combined influence is still strong in Government circles...
...third of Germany's famed 10,000-ton "pocket battleships," the Admiral Graf von Spee, with six nin. guns, was launched and hailed by the Fatherland's Press as "unmatched in battle power for her size." Chancellor Hitler, just before the Nazi revolt broke, inspected the great Krupp works at Esse-n. Instead of passing this off as a trivial event. Publisher Hitler's personal news-organ covered its entire front page with militant pictures from Essen showing the Chancellor promenading with Master Armorer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach...
...flight with Hitler to Essen, Göring showed Hitler certain other suspicious evidence gathered by his Secret Police. The Chancellor and the General then conferred with one of the Nazi Party's earliest and richest backers, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach who led Der Führer proudly through the Krupp Works. Chancellor Hitler, after inspecting Westphalian labor camps, flew on to Bonn. General Göring flew back to Berlin. "Have my plane made ready," he commanded mysteriously...
...Czar's government was not wholly credulous. It seemed to have some qualms that so much Russian armament should be manufactured on foreign soil. This offered no problem to the armament makers. Schneider installed engineers and managers at the Putilov works in St. Petersburg. The Krupps did likewise. French newspapers screamed that the Krupps were spying. German newspapers screamed that the French were spying. But in 1914 found Schneider and Krupp engineers side by side on terms of cordial friendship, overseeing ordnance manufacture on behalf of Nicholas H, Czar of all the Russias