Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer's bodyguard standing at attention, entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short ride on a German warship as the guest of Reich Commander in Chief of the Navy Admiral Eric Raeder...
...early left his native Germany, started a new business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty...
...internal collapse of Germany. Outside the Reich, newspapers carried dispatch after dispatch pointing toward such a possibility. From Zurich came reports of rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops on the Polish front were reported sandwiched between German troops...
...wanted training flights to France; reassuring to French householders who saw the planes descend to 3,000 feet to give them a better look; cheering to Englishmen, who were informed by their newspapers that an equidistant flight over Germany would have taken the planes past Berlin, Hamburg, the Krupp works at Essen; irritating to Germans, whose newspapers screamed "war-mongering." Before popular enthusiasm for the performance ebbed, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented the House of Commons with the bill-not for the flight alone, but for British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized...
...time of the World War the German steel cartel, or Stahlwerksverband, which included the Krupp armament works, was practically coterminous with the entire German steel industry. Fettered at home, competition was directed outward, against the industries of other nations; and throughout Germany the professors were quarreling over the concepts of State Socialism and State Capitalism, and wondering which was which. Meanwhile the Kaiser and court were fearful that the Socialists in the Reichstag (the Social Democratic Party had 112 seats out of 397 in 1912) might forget their "revisionist" doctrines and adopt the naked class war propounded by Karl Marx...