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...high-living Marshal had run out of pocket change. So his old steel friends in the Ruhr dropped a hint: for a license under the Four-Year Plan to develop Salzgitter's low-grade iron deposits, they would pay off his debts. But Planner Göring had a better plan: he decided to get into the steel business himself, boasted that he would make his company "the greatest industrial enterprise in the world." How good Göring has made his boast was told last week in Social Research by Dr. Kurt Lachmann, ex-London correspondent...
...decree (July 23, 1937) he took over low-grade iron deposits in Salzgitter. Two days later and with $2,000,000 (at 40? to a mark) of the Reichsbank's money he formed the Hermann Göring Works to compete with his steel friends in the Ruhr. With the help of famed U. S. Engineer Herman Alexander Brassert, he built a smelter, a rolling mill, a canal over ten miles long, houses for 150,000 workmen. Then, like a geyser, the Göring Works shot up into a vertical trust, overflowed in every direction: into coal fields...
...made it easy to make the 1,100-odd-mile round-trip flight in darkness. Then R. A. F. raids on Berlin left the "manifestation" stage, began to work up toward the deadly thoroughness that long ago forced evacuation of thousands of nonessential inhabitants of the industrial Rhineland and Ruhr, some to as far as the country districts around German-held Paris. Berlin "the unbombable" reeled under bombs. It hurt. And Adolf Hitler, who has always claimed it was the German home front and not the Army which collapsed in 1918, knew that danger well...
Less than half of this crescent (and not the richest half) was in prewar Germany. Nonetheless with her great industrial talents Germany managed to produce about 20% of Europe's manufactures. On the Lower Rhine near the coal of the Ruhr was four-fifths of her industry. In that neighborhood are 16 cities with populations of better than 100,000 apiece-among them Cologne, Essen, Düsseldorf, Duisborg-Ruhrort, world's largest inland port. But the mills of industry do not grind without metal-bearing ores, and Germany was weak in them...
...because her own industries were fed by imports. So were Czecho-Slovakia's. From both of them Germany got an annual supply of nearly 4,000,000 tons of iron ore (a third of her own production). In the event that Germany should be bombed out of the Ruhr, Austria's iron and steel industry at Graz, CzechoSlovakia's well-developed heavy industry near Prague (including the mighty Skoda munitions works at Pilsen) will be important...