• Original Hardcover Military History/Reference Book: “The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968” by William Manchester.

• LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1968.

• Page size: Approx. 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6”).

• English language.

• 942 pages, including numerous illustrations.

• The following synopsis is copied from the internet:

• “The book presents readable and often humorous descriptions of the Krupp family and its businesses from the Thirty Years War to the Kaisers, the Weimar Republic, the Nazis, the American occupation, and finally the Bonn government. Manchester's book describes family members in detail from the first Krupp (circa 1500) "a shrewd chandler with a keen eye for the main chance," through the family's incarnation by the sixth generation as "Essen's uncrowned kings," to the powerful weapons company that armed Germany for three major wars, and finally the dissolution of the business.

• The book examines to what extent German industry has part of the moral responsibility for the acts of the German state during the World War II. Krupp profited directly from requisitions of industrial capacities in occupied Europe. The Nazi war effort created a huge demand for workers in the armament industry; a mobilization of women into the labor force was ruled out due to ideological reasons. Instead the Nazis opted to meet the demand for workers by slave labourers. The Krupp AG owned private concentration camps and leased slaves from the SS at the cost of one Reichsmark per day; The surviving former slaves were not compensated adequately after the war for their sufferings; after the war Alfried Krupp was convicted of crimes against humanity.”

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