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Part Two: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards

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The Story of Alfred Crupp

By the late 18 eighties, alfred was constantly ill and than half mad. He spent his twilight years attempting to sell what was basically an enormous stationary tank. His son instructed the factory to ignore any further communications from his father because he had just gone mad. Crupp finally ceased to rule the arms factory that had been his entire life's work. And he died almost immediately after that, on july thirteenth, 18 87, from a hard attack.

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