Word: krupps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herr Krupp shrugged his bony shoulders: "I wanted to stay with my factory where I belong, with my fellow workers...
...plant had been shut down, he said, since the heavy Allied air raid of March 11. At that time upward of 50,000 workers, including 10,000 foreign slaves, were on the Krupp production line...
...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...