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

Behind the Bastards

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Crupps, the Original Seven 11 Who Hat Really Cot

The crupp family made most of its money because they owned a large store, and they collected rent from properties. By the late 16 hundreds, one writer described the family as the uncrowned kings of esen. They bought a large steel foundry at one point, but they sold it in the early 18 hundreds. In short, friedrich was ambitious, but either dumb or unlucky, he liked to spend money and he had no real talent for making more of it.

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