Slave Labor is 75 percent wrong.
After Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Krupp works became the center for German rearmament. In 1943, by a special order from Hitler, the company reverted into a family holding, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907 - 67), son of Gustav Krupp, took over the management. After Germany's defeat, when Gustav proved incapable of going on trial, the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal convicted Alfried as a war criminal (in the so-called "Krupp Trial") for his company's use of slave labor. It sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment and ordered him to sell 75% of his holdings. In 1951, as the Cold War developed and no buyer came forward, the authorities released him, and in 1953 he resumed control of the firm.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Krupp
....and if you can't find a buyer, then the whole thing was just a big misunderstanding.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Krupp
....and if you can't find a buyer, then the whole thing was just a big misunderstanding.

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