Word: krupps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elaborate reconnaissance photographs and even motion pictures to show the devastation being inflicted on German plants and communications. One point which impressed the Russians strongly: Germany's relative artillery weakness, exploited brilliantly by Soviet generals in recent battles, was caused mainly by heavy Allied raids on the giant Krupp, Schneider and Skoda gun factories...
...Department's expert on Russia is bright and young Charles L. ("Chick") Bohlen. Tall, fair, long-faced, Bohlen descends from Prussia's aristocratic Bohlens. is related to the head of Germany's vast Krupp arms works. Bohlen speaks fluent Russian, is for Russians as Russians, on his record is against the Soviet Government as such...
...rhythmic plans of the German General Staff first to dominate Europe and then the world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, businessmen like Helmuth Wohlthat, Junkers like Franz von Papen...
...giant Krupp's 300 buildings in the Essen region, 200 were so badly damaged as to force complete shutdowns. Virtual demolition of one truck-assembly plant probably cost the German Army between 750 and 1,000 trucks. A large locomotive shop was destroyed by fire, which means that by September the Nazis will be missing about 150 badly needed locomotives which they might otherwise have...
Essen, city of some 700,000 people, which turned out precise and coldly beautiful machinery of war, was gasping with a thousand wounds. A single lightning raid, the R.A.F. reported, had razed the entire center of the city early last week, wrecked 75% of the giant Krupp arms factories (TIME, March 15). More than 450 acres of buildings, plants, machinery and human dwellings were in ruins. A week later the bombers came again, hit even harder with more than 1 ,000 tons of bombs...