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Book The Wilhelm Krupp Family

Download or read book The Wilhelm Krupp Family written by Cynthia Spurgat Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Weiss Krupp was born 25 January 1829 in Riesenberg, West Prussia. His parents were David Krupp (1803-1869) and Dorothea Weiss. He married Anna Cherr (1831-1906), daughter of Gottfried Cherr and Eva Klotzke, 2 April 1854. They had ten children. They emigrated in 1881 and settled in Michigan. He died 1 April 1906 in Big Rapids, Michigan. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Michigan.

Book Krupp

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harold James
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-02-26
  • ISBN : 069115340X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Krupp written by Harold James and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a non-profit foundation. Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which established the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm's head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again -- this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible" -- Publisher's description.

Book The Arms of Krupp  1587 1968

Download or read book The Arms of Krupp 1587 1968 written by William Manchester and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Krupp

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  • Author : Harold James
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-02-26
  • ISBN : 1400841860
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Krupp written by Harold James and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the steel and arms maker that came to symbolize the best and worst of modern German history The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a nonprofit foundation. Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which established the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm's head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again—this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible. Books on Krupp tend to either denounce it as a diabolical enterprise or celebrate its technical ingenuity. In contrast, James presents a balanced account, showing that the owners felt ambivalent about the company's military connection even while becoming more and more entangled in Germany's aggressive politics during the imperial era and the Third Reich. By placing the story of Krupp and its owners in a wide context, James also provides new insights into the political, social, and economic history of modern Germany.

Book Krupp  A Great Business Man Seen Through His Letters

Download or read book Krupp A Great Business Man Seen Through His Letters written by Wilhelm Berdrow and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Blood And Steel   The Rise Of The House Of Krupp

Download or read book Blood And Steel The Rise Of The House Of Krupp written by Bernhard Menne and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Krupp family are a prominent German dynasty from Essen and are famous for their steel production and the manufacture of ammunitions and armaments. This book provides the first genuine critical history of the company whose guns made the background for a half-century of mad armament policy, made possible by Krupp's new patron, Adolf Hitler. The House of Krupp's true history had been concealed by thousands of printed pages containing cleverly dished-up data which the author has pushed aside to reveal a true historical investigative account.

Book The Arms of Krupp

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  • Author : William Manchester
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2017-10-31
  • ISBN : 031648394X
  • Pages : 858 pages

Download or read book The Arms of Krupp written by William Manchester and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery pieces and submarines that set the standard for effectiveness. This book relates the history of this influential company.

Book Homintern

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  • Author : Gregory Woods
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 0300219563
  • Pages : 455 pages

Download or read book Homintern written by Gregory Woods and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called “the Homintern” (an echo of Lenin’s “Comintern”) by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.

Book The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II  1888 1918

Download or read book The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II 1888 1918 written by Isabel V. Hull and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the entourage of the last German Kaiser to explain the peculiar decisions taken by Germany's leaders from 1888 to 1918.

Book Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma written by Larry Millett and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogged by depression, doubt, and—as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed—emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer

Book The Arms of Krupp

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  • Author : William Manchester
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1110 pages

Download or read book The Arms of Krupp written by William Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arming the Sultan

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  • Author : Naci Yorulmaz
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 085773668X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Arming the Sultan written by Naci Yorulmaz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy. Sending military advisors abroad and promoting arms sales, each legitimizing and supporting the other, became indispensable tools of alliance-making starting from the eve of the First World War until today. To the German Empire, as a relative latecomer to imperialistic rivalry in the struggle for colonies around the word in the late 19th century, arms exports performed a decisive service in stimulating and strengthening the German military-based expansionist economic foreign policy and provided effective tools to create new alliances around the globe. Therefore, from the outset, the German armament firms' marketing and sales operations to the global arms market but especially to the Ottoman Empire, under the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II, were openly and strongly supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bismarck and the other decision-makers in German Foreign Policy. Based on extensive multinational archival research in Germany, Turkey, Britain and the United States, Arming the Sultan explores the decisive impact of arms exports on the formation and stimulation of Germany's expansionist foreign economic policy towards the Ottoman Empire. Making an important contribution to current scholarship on the political economy of the international arms trade, Yorulmaz's innovative book Arming the Sultan reveals that arms exports, specifically under the shadow of personal diplomacy, proved to be an indispensable and integral part of Germany's foreign economic policy during the period leading up to WW1.

Book The Arms of Krupp

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Manchester
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 992 pages

Download or read book The Arms of Krupp written by William Manchester and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Northern Theater of Operations 1940 1945  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book German Northern Theater of Operations 1940 1945 Illustrated Edition written by Earl Ziemke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.

Book Krupp

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernhard Menne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Krupp written by Bernhard Menne and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hitler and His Secret Partners

Download or read book Hitler and His Secret Partners written by James Pool and published by Beyond Words/Atria Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful expose about Hitler's secret funding, James Pool tells the full story of the financial calculation, exploitation, and greed at the core of the Third Reich--including startling revelations about those who provided Hitler with money and the moral support he needed. The current furor over Nazi money held in Swiss banks makes this book extremely timely. photos. Print reviews.

Book Celebrity Family Trees

Download or read book Celebrity Family Trees written by Ed Wright and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you thought the rich and famous were weird, wait till you meet their relatives"--Back cover