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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daddy's End | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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