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...Cover) At last the victors met the German people. Not the Nazi Party, not the horror-masters of Buchenwald and Dachau, not the General Staff and the Wehrmacht, not Krupp's and I. G. Farbenindustrie, but the people, from whom all the evil and the vigor sprang...
...evidence is plain in the great plants which dot the countryside, or lie just outside the devastated cities. The Krupp plant in the center of Essen is a classic example of what bombing can do: a waste of shattered walls, twisted girders, rusting steel. Yet the main Krupp foundry at Rheinhausen is virtually untouched. With other Krupp plants, it could turn out 60% of Krupp's normal steel production...
...Herr Krupp was annoyed. "Must I answer?" he snapped. "Yes," Colonel Sagmoen snapped back. Herr Krupp lit a cigaret from a silver case in his pocket, puffed anxiously, said: "Four hundred thousand marks a year [$160,000 at official prewar exchange rate]." All profits, he said, had been split between the Nazi Government and his family...
...Americans thought of Krupp steel -the steel that went into U-boats, tanks, guns. They thought especially of the "Krupp cannon"-the famed, deadly 88, destroyer of Allied men and machines all the bloody way from El Alamein to the Rhine. They asked a final question...
...Herr Krupp pondered. For five generations his family had forged arms-for Napoleon, for the Habsburgs, for the Hohenzollerns, for the Nazis, for any customers with cash. They had made $200,000,000 in World War I. They had profited even more fabulously-for a while-in World War II. And now? Herr Krupp, merchant of death, answered: "I hope to rebuild the factories and produce again...