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

Behind the Bastards

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Alfred Crupp's 'Dirty Mind'

In short, alfred crupp lost his damnd mind. His wild success brought him a kind of megalomania. He mortgaged the company near the breaking point to buy up almost every mine in germany. Since he was providing his employees with homes, schools, hospitals and food, he reasoned that their hours away from work belonged to him too. A lot like jeff besos, he's just open homeless shelters for amazon employees. So the continued success of the social democrats threw alfred into a constant rage. Alfred threatened to dynamite his entire factory, and had to be argued down by his employ s. The fact that the s p d still existed

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