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...cost $25,000 to kill one soldier in the World War. Krupp supplied many a gun with which Belgian and Russian soldiers slaughtered German troops at the outbreak of the War. Though forbidden by the Versailles Treaty from making armaments, this famed German company is today rearming Germany and doing a good-sized munitions export business to the Far East and South America...
...Capitalists such as Krupp are certainly not the dominating influence in the third Reich. People who are holding an opposite view, evidently forgot that the aims of the Hitler Government are not only national but as well socialistic. For the purpose of supporting the National Socialistic Party organization the help of the so-called capitalists is neither desired nor needed. The dues paid by the members of the Party are amply sufficient to supply that want...
...papers. T. U. had a subsidiary to rewrite its dispatches so that both papers could use them. It was owned by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "Germany's Hearst," who went into journalism after the War during which he had functioned as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Krupp Munitions Works...
...this proved the exceeding wisdom of Germany's great iron & steel mongering House of Krupp, now headed by Bertha Krupp's husband, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. In his own vast organization Dr. Krupp von Bohlen is a high-collared martinet, but in dealing with raw statesmen of the new regime he has proved an ingratiating fellow. Less than three months ago he, as president of the Federation of German Industries, beat a strategic retreat by putting it under Nazi auspices. Last week he fairly bubbled optimism as members of the Federation received official notice canceling...
...such must understand he is thereby revolting against his leader and will be dealt with accordingly. . . . From now on power rests with the Government and with the Government alone!" Sure, perhaps prematurely, that German business is really going to be largely let alone by the Nazi State, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen lent eager aid to a Nazi press campaign which sought to pretend last week that such interference had never existed. Speaking at Hamburg he recalled that one of his great grandfathers. Brigadier General Henry Bohlen of Philadelphia, died during the Civil War near Kelly's Ford...