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

Behind the Bastards

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Alfred Crupp, a German Inventor and a Killer Gunman

Alfred crupp was a brilliant engineer, inventor and innovator who sold s to everyone on the planet. The only thing he was really capable of thinking about was how to build better guns to murder people with. We know very little about art because but that he was a man of means. Arnt was a sixteenth century german merchant. Girth was proof of prosperity. Seven hour meetings were not uncommon. It has been estimated that the well to do spent half their waking hours either masticating or deficating. One performer devoured 30 eggs, a pound of cheese and a large quantity of bread in a single sitting. He then fell dead and became a national hero.

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