Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What are your plans?" newsmen asked Alfred Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach when he was arrested in 1945 as a war criminal, amid the wreckage of his vast armaments empire. "Rebuild the factories," answered Krupp, "and produce again." Last week he was about to make good his resolve...
...most popular joke making the rounds last week in the land of Goethe and Krupp told of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, at prayer in his chapel. From the vaults below, he heard a German voice groaning: "Adenauer, Adenauer, save me." The Chancellor crossed himself and dug downwards towards the voice. In a pit strewn with ruins he found Germania crucified, and stooped to draw out the nails clamping his nation's feet to a cross made by the Allies. As the nails came loose, Germania sprang up, and with a mighty kick booted Adenauer out of the chapel...
Married. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 44, fifth-generation head of the Krupp arms-making dynasty (from Napoleon to the Nazis), whose twelve-year sentence (in 1948) for war crimes was cut short last year; and Martha Vera Wilhelmina Knauer, German-born U.S. citiztn; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
...Krupp's reprieve roused wide Allied apprehension. The Paris-Presse saw "all that the French detest in Germany-the Prussian spirit, pan-Germanism, militarism, industrial dumping-" walking abroad again...
...freeing Alfried Krupp (who had been condemned to twelve years' imprisonment as a war criminal), and reviewing the sentences of 100 others, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and U.S. commander in Europe General Thomas Handy relied on the findings of an advisory board* on clemency. McCloy commuted to varying terms of imprisonment the sentences of 21 others who wore red jackets-Landsberg's garb for men who are condemned to death...