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...time they pour into the North Sea, 820 miles away. At Basel, the Rhine picks up city sewage; the chemical industries near Mannheim dump acids, oils, phenols, ammonia, dyes, chlorine, sulphate, iron, copper, bleach, cadmium and formaldehyde into its waters; the coal mines near the confluence of the Ruhr disgorge calcium deposits and sludge; the steel mills of Cologne contribute iron dross, furnace slag, oils and fats. As a result, the Rhine has come to be known as "Europe's longest sewer...
...ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. The "smokestack barons" of the Ruhr, whose arsenal armed Germany in two world wars, are portrayed in an encyclopaedic history of their most powerful and eccentric family...
...ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. An encyclopedic history of the eccentric family whose arsenal on the Ruhr armed Germany in two world wars...
...ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. An encyclopedic history of the eccentric family whose arsenal on the Ruhr armed Germany in two world wars...
They were known as Schlotbarone, smokestack barons of the Ruhr. Bismarck treasured them, and used their shells to break the power of France in Europe. The Kaiser presided over their marriage plans, and misused their steel and submarines to lose the first World War. Hitler was awed by them. Deep in World War II, he took time out to write a special law (the Lex Krupp) to keep their family fortune intact. In the minds of many men in many lands, the Krupp name became synonymous with the cold pursuit of cash, steel and power, indeed, with the shame...