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Part One: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People

Behind the Bastards

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The Hero of the Story So Far, Fred Koch

Koch Industries hired a company called Winkler Koch to help build an oil refinery in Hamburg, Germany. The job occurred in the mid 1930s and was part of their work for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. In 1940 they were bought out by Exxon-Mobil who went on to become one of the biggest U.S. oil companies.

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