Word: krupps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant raiding, especially at Essen, home of the vast Krupp plants...
...banned, owners of firearms ordered to register. Swedes became sufficiently conscious of the Nazi penetration to organize a private boycott of German goods. In 1935 anti-German Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler got an act passed to end foreign control, through dummy corporations, of Swedish industries. It was aimed at Krupp's one-third ownership of the Bofors works. (Just before the act went through, Krupp sold out to a Swedish group headed by Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren.) Junkers had to give up a manufacturing affiliate in Sweden, but Germans remained on the directorates of other big Swedish firms...
...when, on his way to last fortnight's Balkan Entente meeting, he said: "Turkey is not neutral but only nonbelligerent for the moment," it was dispelled last week by a sudden Turkish gesture. Under the emergency powers voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting two new Turkish submarines, together with 60 other Germans working at the Gremlik naval base, in an explosives factory at Kirikkale, and in the Zonguldak coal field. Other Germans made haste to pull up stakes...
Killed in Action. Lieutenant Klaus Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 29, son of Munitioneers Bertha and Gustav Krupp of the Krupp arms works, their second son to die in the war; and Lieutenant Hans Vögler, 26, son of Steelmaster Albert Vögler, of the vast Vereinigte Stahlwerke syndicate; both while piloting planes of the German Air Force...