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According to Dr. Schmitt the "Corporative State'' was to be achieved by dividing German business into twelve groups, each with a "Group Leader" sitting in the Grand Economic Council. This division has been made and on the Council sit Steel Tycoons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. Beyond this point, however, the Nazi "Corporative State'' is still on the shelf...
Abroad rumors have buzzed insistently that Tycoons Krupp von Bohlen and Thyssen were behind the recent blood purge of Nazi radicals (TIME, July 9) and now dominate Adolf Hitler. Best opinion among informed U. S. correspondents in Berlin was summed up last week as follows: "Herr Thyssen has lost much of the influence he enjoyed during the Party's fight for supremacy, when he was National Socialism's greatest champion among Big Business. Neither Thyssen nor Krupp von Bohlen is able to force his own ideas upon the Party, though their combined influence is still strong in Government circles...
...other: Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen...
...Germany the greatest steel company is the Vereinigte Stalwerke A. G. and for its head it has Fritz Thyssen, king of the Ruhr. It was Thyssen who was Hitler's angel; who, as one move in a battle to retain control of his industrial affairs (dealt a desperate blow by Germany's banking crisis of 1931) began pouring money into the treasury of the Nazis to assure to himself the help of a friendly government. So far, nothing improper; if Thyassen believed in the Nazi philosophy, or the good it might do him, there was no real reason...
...story. Both the Optimist and the Jupiter belong to a Zurich firm named the Arksis Aksa Co. formed in 1933 "to foster trade with the Sultanate of Mauretania." London's Daily Mail charged that the real owner of Arksis Aksa Co. is Germany's munitions Tycoon Fritz Thyssen, longtime financial backer of Adolf Hitler. The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy...