Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When U.S. troops rolled up to Villa Hugel in 1945. Alfried Krupp came downstairs, protesting (in English) that he was merely a businessman. The Americans disagreed. He was bundled into a jeep and driven off through the rubble-strewn streets to be interrogated...
Gustav escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile (he died in 1950), but the temper of the times demanded a Krupp in the dock. Though both the British and Russians declined to try Alfried, he and eleven directors were put on trial before a U.S. court at Nürnberg, were convicted of plundering the industries of conquered countries and exploiting slave labor. Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head...
Orderly & Properly. There was nothing in Alfried Krupp's sheltered life to prepare him for this ordeal. The first of Gustav's and Bertha's eight children, he grew up in an atmosphere suggestive of Novelist Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Kaiser Wilhelm II was his godfather. Young Alfried's world centered around Villa Hugel, which was not only a well-regulated German household to its inhabitants but the focus of social life for the Ruhr. The children saw little of their parents or other children, spent most of their time in the care of teachers...
Alfried was ten when he first went through a Krupp steel plant. At 17 he graduated with high grades from the nearby Bredeney Realgymnasium, a month later started work as an apprentice at the Krupp works in Essen. He had to leave Villa Hügel on his motor bike at 6 a.m. to get to the shop in time, once had his name put up on the plant's "lazy list" for being late. After his father decided that he should study steelmaking, he was shipped off to the Munich Polytechnikum -his first departure from home-later finished...
Kruppianer Spirit. Krupp was confident from the first that his prison sentence would be reduced. In 1951. having made an investigation of Krupp's war guilt. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy commuted the sentences of Alfried and his directors to time already served. Said Lawyer McCloy: "I can find no personal guilt in Defendant Krupp, based upon the charges in this case, sufficient to distinguish him above all others sentenced by the Nurnberg courts." He therefore ordered Krupp's property returned to him though Krupp later had to sign the Mehlen Accord which split...