Thread by @JimmyFalunGong

today introduces new characters in the Krupp saga and there's a widespread bribery case implicating most of the German army!
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Marga Krupp, Fritz' wife, left with their two daughters, Bertha and Barbara

Bertha and Barbara were sent to boarding schools until they were old enough to get married; here's Bertha

here's Alfred Hugenberg, who Marga put on the Krupp board to represent her. Why yes! He did come up in earlier episodes about the Nazis, thanks for asking. he ran the Nationalist party which was eventually cannibalized by the Nazis

here's Kaiser Wilhelm II, the close personal friend to Fritz Krupp, who picked Bertha's husband

here's the professional husband himself, Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

a popular Ruhr joke about him said that when Gustav was born, the doctor threw the baby away and kept the placenta

the third richest man in Germany, Baron von Goldschmidt-Rothschild of the Frankfurt banking house

second richest man in Germany, Prince Henckel von Donnersmark, whose shitty descendent Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck directed the Lives of Others

richest person in Germany - Bertha Krupp

Krupp held the Krupp Centenary celebration and put on a full renaissance fair including full knights in armor, it was 100% completely deranged shit

Maximilian von Brandt, whomst wikipedia calls "a German diplomat, East Asia expert and publicist", but curiously leaves out any mention of the Kornwalzer scandal or the Brandt-Krupp trials lmao.

Karl Liebknecht, the SPD politician who pushed to expose the Kornwalzer scandal (and who the state leaked to to try and clean things up)

General von Heeringen, Minister of War, got up in the Reichstag and was like, "yeah, no, Liebknecht is right about widespread bribery and theft of military secrets" lmao

cartoon depicting Krupp direcor Otto Eccius and Maximilian Brandt on trial

Krupp director Otto Eccius, put on trial for stealing hundreds and hundreds of German military documents for literally every piece of military equipment, and bribing like, basically every relevant German officer in the army and navy

it's good stuff, check it out