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Word: markstaedt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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During Alfried Krupp's trial as a war criminal in -1948 (he was to spend 30 months in prison until pardoned), the U.S. prosecution charged that he "actively sought to employ concentration-camp inmates and for that purpose built factories near the camps of Markstaedt and Auschwitz." Though witnesses said that 100,000 camp inmates and P.W.s worked in Krupp plants, no one knows how many were Jews. Of the Jewish slave laborers, an unknown number died in the Nazi gas ovens. In the whole federal republic, there are now only 30,000 Jews. Krupp officials estimate that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Krupp & the Jews | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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