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

Behind the Bastards

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The Germans Are Not Ready for a Hitler

He urged his workers to ignore politics and put up notices in his factory that a vote for the social democratic party was a vote for idle, dissolute and incompetent. He would invite people oe and then refused to see them, spying on them secretly through hidden chambers in his home. In his late sixties, krupp became a tyrant, cracking down irrationally on anything that seemed like descent. Once when an unmarried couple flirted in his home, they woke up to find a sheet of paper with his handwriting on it in their bedroom,. telling them that a carriage was ready to take them away, kissing and shit. Ye, he's a weird dude.

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