Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munitions Master Alfred Krupp, taken in his huge Ruhr mansion (see below...
...great Krupp works at Essen, arsenal of Kaiser and Führer, lay dead. For five years this steel heart of the German war machine had been a prime target of Allied bombers. Last week U.S. Ninth Armymen rolled past the debris, a few miles farther south overran the high-walled Villa Hügel, secluded estate of powerful, mysterious Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Herr President of Krupp, silent partner of Naziism, now wanted by the Allies as a war criminal...
...Duisburg, Ninth Army patrols and German patrols were trying to feel out the opposite banks. Ninth Army guns shelled German workers who still came & went from the Duisburg factories, and eight-inch guns reached twelve miles to the Krupp works in air-battered Essen...
...destroyers were ordered to Tushan, where Gleason gaped at the assignment-warehouse after warehouse stacked ceiling high with tons and tons of small-arms ammunition bearing such brand names as Skoda, Krupp, Winchester. Other buildings were filled with mortar shells and dynamite...
...Power? Good. But the British said there was nothing left of Hamburg and then had to bomb it 119 additional times. The military works are underground. Essen? Hitler is a fool if he hasn't moved the Krupp works underground into Austria, and left empty factories for the bombers. . . . There'll be 6,000,000 fighting men underground when we reach Japan...