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...DaimlerChrysler subsidiary that assembles the Smart Car, has taken that idea further than any other company. Its plant in Hambach, France, is really seven separate factories, each occupied by a different systems partner. The chassis is shuffled off to a subfactory run by the German firm of Krupp Hoesch Automotive, where the power module is installed. Bosch plunks down the front end, which includes the cooler, headlights and crash box. German plastics, chemical and industrial-ceramics company Dynamit Nobel snaps on plastic body panels and the whole vehicle is done in four hours--down from...
...billion to settle wartime claims against them. Since then no fewer than 10 class actions have been filed against European companies that do business in the U.S. Some of these are claims for individual accounts confiscated by banks in Germany and Austria. Others charge that major corporations such as Krupp, Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz profited from slave labor during the wartime years and should pay billions in back wages and other compensation. The issue of Holocaust reparations was raised again at a conference in Washington last week sponsored by the State Department and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where representatives...
Charles S. Maier '60, Krupp professor of European studies, suggested the best way for students to advance their language proficiency is to go to places where they are not "native speaker...
Perhaps even a greater concern than the decision to reallocate the money was the shoddy process by which the University searched for a scholar to fill the proposed chair. According to Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier, the committee chair, some members of the search committee, though qualified scholars in the field, objected to the idea of a professorship solely devoted to the Holocaust and its causes...
This community of 43,000 residents planted its German roots in the cornfields east of St. Louis, Mo., more than a century ago, and today wears its heritage from storefront to storefront: Krupp Florist, Schnuck's Grocery, Dueker Chiropractic. In this tidy community of Moose lodges and brick churches, even the gas stations are nicely landscaped. But look closer, and gambling seems to have sneaked in everywhere--and not just because the riverboat casino of East St. Louis is docked 14 miles away. The gambling rage has also come through the video-poker machines in the local taverns, bowling alleys...