HEADS OF KRUPPS COMBINE BROUGHT TO TRIAL

Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1947, Page 5

HEADS OF KRUPPS COMBINE BROUGHT TO TRIAL

XUR EMBERG, Dec. 8. In the historic Courtroom where (loering and the other leading Xa/.is were conderuned, ihe trial began today of 12 chiefs of the giant Krupps numitions comhine, headed by Alt'red Krnpp ■ von Bolden und Halhach, who is tho heir and sole owner of Krupps since liif,'!. lle is in the dock in plaee of his i at her who, in a condition of senile decay, is uuable to staml trial. Tlie 11 other accused are Kdward Oskar Loeser. Eduard Houndrement, 1'irich Mueller, Friedrieh Wilheln: .Jannsen, Karl Pfirsch, .Max Otto Ihn, Karl Kberhurdl. Lleinrich Korschan. Friedrieh von Buelow, Werner l^elijmann and llans' Custav Kupke. j All but Loeser and von Buelow are alleged to have been members of the Xazi Party. All the defendants 'are chnrged with eiimes against peace, the plunder of occupied countries and spoilation. deportation, exploitation and abuse of slave labour; also with farming a cominon conspiracy for uggres.sive warfare. They listened intentlv as the Fni{ed Sta'es proseculor ( Brigadier-Ceneral Telf'ord Tavlor) told the story of Krupps from the period after the First World War, when Krupps reorganised secretly in violation of Ihe Yersailles Treaty, to ihe linal collapse of the Xazi reginie. (b'neral Tuyl.ir described Krupps and tlie Dennan rnilii ifrisls as the iudest ructible eominon denoniinator of the Dernians' inurderous and obstiuateiy rejieated lunges at the world 's throat. Deseribing how Krupps "shared the spoils of concpiest " the prosecution said the Dennan occupation authorities in France turned over to Krupps one of Ku'-ope's lurgest textile machine factories, wliich was in Alsace. Krupps in 1 Toi land had phindered factories in Hilversum, Rotterdani, Dordrecht und else where. and their local representatives were able to tell the occupation authorities where stores of materfal? and products were local ed and nvailable for seizure.