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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...
...clock on a foggy morning last week, the door of Landsberg Prison, where the U.S. holds some 500 German war criminals, swung open. Out came 29 men in rough-fitting ski pants, blue or grey jackets, no ties. They blinked at the waiting crowds. Berthold Krupp rushed up to older brother Alfried, heir to the bomb-shattered steel and munitions empire (only branch producing: the locomotive works), thrust a bouquet of daffodils and tulips into his hands. The two rode off in a black sedan to a champagne breakfast at Landsberg's best hotel...
Said 43-year-old Alfried, head of the Krupp dynasty that had armed Germany in three wars: "I hope it will never be necessary to produce arms again...
...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...