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...Well," said 82-year-old Carl Gustav Jung in Zurich last week as a tiny microphone was fastened around his neck and a TV camera was wheeled into place, "this is the first time anyone ever had me on a leash." Then, his white head wreathed in tobacco smoke, the famed analyst leaned back to answer questions and explain the theories that placed him with Freud and Adler in the big three of modern psychology. It was his first experience with TV, and it was for an audience that must have seemed remote indeed. The audience to be convened this...
...huge steel foundry at Rheinhausen was built, and all high-quality steel plates in Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
...Gustav bought new iron-ore mines and coal mines, built bigger presses and mills. When World War I broke out, Krupp was the biggest industrial firm on the Continent, with 82,500 workers. During the war Krupp built the Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed the Liège forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France. Its name was also applied later by newspapermen to the German gun that shelled Paris from 75 miles away...
...chopped off half of Krupp's steelmaking capacity, carried the equipment away, destroyed 2,000,000 machines and tools. But they could not destroy the spirit of Krupp's workers, who halted the dismantling process by going on strike during the French occupation. Furious, the French threw Gustav in jail for seven months. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying on armaments research, producing small quantities of tanks, guns, even submarines...
...Jail. In 1943 Allied bombers started the rain of bombs on Krupp's Essen plant that eventually destroyed a third of it. That same year the aging, ailing Gustav got Hitler to declare legal the famed Lex Krupp, giving the Krupps the privilege henceforth to name one successor as the sole owner of the empire. He would arrange substantial allowances for the rest of the family, among whom stock had previously been split. Gustav stepped down, and Alfried, a sensitive, retiring young man. became ruler of the vast Krupp holdings. For the rest of the war, he left most...