By Michael MacAlpin

AN you think of anything

erazier than all this?

A Nazi millionaire war crim-
inal is released from jail by the
people he tried recently to wipe
out,

He says he has learned a les-
son—and he-won’t manufacture

"any more arms.

He says that next time he
goes to war he may not escape
with his life. : :

He adds that any way—and
this matters even more — he’s
doing very well, thank you, pro-
ducing other things.

8 For he is taking over the
markets of the fools who are
making arms.

Those fools happen to be the
people he was trying a few.years
ago to crush.

And they desperately want
him to resume arms making.
They want him to do so because
they don’t wish to lose their
markets to him.

But they won’t cut down their
own arms and produce goods
for these markets.

Instead, they wish him _ to
make arms against other people
he was trying to crush and who
at great sacrifice helped to de-
feat him,

To induce him to do this,
they offer him a bribe running
into millions.

You will agree that this is
lunacy. It is lunacy on a grand
scale,

It is lunacy on a scale that
‘transforms it into a crime.

It is the crime of treachery to
the peoples of the wonld.

It is a crima only possible un-
der capitalism. For only under
capitalism can people in high
places think in such terms,

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The war criminal is Alfried
Krupp, the present head of the
German armaments family.

He was sentenced by an Am-
erican court at Nuremburg in
1948 to 12 years imprisonment
for using slave labor during the
war.

Three years before that the
United States chief counsel at

~ the international tribunal at

Nuremburg said that Krupps—

with Alfried Krupp among those

directly responsible—

“ . . led German industry
in violating treaties and inter-
national law by employing en-
slaved laborers, impressed and
imported from nearly every
country occupied by Germany,
and by compelling prisoners
of war to make arms and am-
munition for use against their
own countries.”” He added:

“There is ample evidence
that in Krupp’s custody and
service they were underfed
and over-worked, misused and
inhumanly treated. Captured
records show that in Septem-
ber 1944 Krupp concerns were
working 54,990 foreign work-
ers and 18,902 prisoners of
Wwar,”’

Evidence at Nuremburg in
1946 revealed some details of
the treatment of prisoners of
war forced to work for Krupps,
Here is just one—taken from a
German report.

“The prisoner-of-war camp
in Naeggerath Street is in an
atrocious condition. The men
live in dustbins, in ovens no
longer used, in huts made by
themselves. (Food is barely
sufficient. Krupp is respons-

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This cartoon, published by the Pacific Tribune in its issue of November 2,
1951, has been given added point by the steps taken to speed up rearmament
of West Germany during the past year.

ible for the food supply.
“Medicine and bandages
were so scarce that in many
cases medical treatment is
completely impossible.”

That shows what kind of man

Alfried Krupp is.
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But the Americans have had
a change of heart.

Last year Alfred Krupp was
released from jail by John Mc-
Cloy, the American High Com-
missioner in ‘Western Germany,

More than that McCloy an
nulled an order under which
Alfried Krupp forfeited his pro-
perty, -

Furthermore, it is now re-
vealed that throughout his time
in prison, Krupp kept his hand
on the family business, presid-
ing at regular meetings.

This was the beginning of
the present phase of American
lunacy.

By these acts, Alfried Krupp
was made respectable. He was
a free man and free to enjoy his
property.
~ There was no stigma attached
to him, The crime that the
American prosecution had out-
lined was now wiped off the
slate. Or so the Americans
thought.

Krupp was now apparently
free to resume the family busi-
ness—if not with slave labor,
according to the family tradi-
tions,

Those
known.

traditions are well
Krupps supported the

A Nazi

fs of Hitler’s most blood-
stained hangmen is back at
work again for the West Ger-
man government, reports from
Bonn state.

He is Dr. Manfred Roeder, for-
mer chief judge of the German
Air Force, who tried- and sen-
tenced to death one of the larg
est underground anti - Nazi
groups in 1942,

He personally signed 70 death *

sentences against the anti-fas-
cist members of this’ group,
known to the Gestapo as the
“Rote Kapelle.’’ Those execut-
ed on Roeder’s orders included
Mrs. Mildred Harnack-Fish, a
member of the board of the Am-
erican Women’s Club, and Adam

Kaiser. Krupps supported Hit-

ler.

In the judgment issued by the
Nuremburg tribunal, 1946, we
are told how Krupps worked to
build up Hitler’s armaments and
to plan the Second World War.

We are shown how Krupps
did more. They did not merely
cash-in on Hitler’s success. In
common with other German cap-

ALFRIED KRUPP

italists, they made Hitler’s suc-
cess possible. He was very
largely a ee of their crea-
tion,

They supplied the funds for
the Nazi party. Their execu-

hangman returns

Kuckhoff, noted writer. i

Kuckhoff’s wife, Greta Kuck-
hoff, who is today president of
the East German State Bank,
and who was also one of the de-
fendants in this case, wrote in
L9AT-

“Roeder produced the death.
sentences on the conveyor belt
system. .

“A little student girl, who
had translated an illegal ap-
peal for the man she loved,
Was sent to die for it.

“Two young mothers, one
of them scarcely 19 years old,
were allowed to live on after
their husbands had been hang-
ed, in order to give birth to
their babies in prisons, Then

tives became Nazi “ex-
perts.” x
But by 1951, the Americans
in Western Germany weren’t
worrying about that. They no
doubt. remembered Krupps rath-
er as partners in profitable in-
ternational cartel deals.

party

And their lunacy was mount-
ing like a fever. They had al-
ready tied the British and
French economy to their plans
—as mad, surely, as Hitler’s—
for a war against the Soviet
Union and for the conquest of
the world.

They now wanted to tie the
enormous potential of Western
Germany, too.

So Alfried Krupp was let out
of jail. :
stored.
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But a ghost arose to-.accuse
the Americans. It was Allied
Law, 27.

Under this law, anyone who
“furthered the aggressive de-
signs of the National. Socialist
(Nazi) party’? was forbidden to
own coal mines and basic steel-
producing plants,

The ghost had to be daid if
Krupp was to be restored legal-
ly in the possession of his fam-
ily . concerns.

A way had to be found, so a
plan was formed to ‘exclude’
Krupp from ownership of coal
and steel industries,

And—woyld you believe it?
—the way was found by, the

they were collected and driy-

en, manacled to the gallows.’’

Roeder himself attended all
the executions, and had a special
film made which he then showed
to his friends,

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After the war a number of at-
tempts were made to bring Roe
der to justice, but he had such
powerful friends among the
western occupation powers that
he was not only never tried, but
he was ‘‘denazified’”’ without a
stain on his character, and his
estate at Neetze in the British
Zone was returned to him.

Last year Roeder came back
into the public eye when he
made official application to

His property was re- -

What’s behind

the release of

Alfried Krupp,
Nazi war
criminal ?

——

Allied High Commission in col
Sultation with Krupp himself.

This does sound unbelievabl®
but, by now, one is ready 1
believe that the Americans could
be guilty of almost any act of
madness, é

This had a certain cunniDé,
too. To “exclude” Krupp, thé
Krupp interests have been divid-
ed into four parts—steel, coal
engineering, and the rest, vie
he is to keep.

The first three groups are uy
be sold. On the sale Krupp 80%
“compensation” of $90 million
in cash and an income of #
million a year in royalties.

With so much money, and %°
much knowledge of how such

things are done, it should b@ —
simple for Krupp to regain dis-

guised control of West Gel
many’s coal and steel, a8
The Americans have give?

him back his millions becaus?
they have now discovered that
Krupps are, after all, ‘ante
decent, business men.’

‘The “amiable” Alfried xrupP
will, however, not get his mil-
lions without giving something
in return.

You can guess. it easily .
enough. Krupps and theif
friends will make the Ruhr into
Europe’s greatest arsenal ong
more.

The Ameri
to:

So, there it is.
cans are bribing the Germans
blow’us all up,

But the fear-in the back of
Alfried Krupp’s mind is 1@®
There may be no escape for the
war criminals “next time.”

The American war criminals —

- should be warned now—not f0F

their sake but ours,

In West Germany itself enero
is mass opposition to the Amery —
can. lunacy.

So there should be in this —
country, '

to work

West German Chancellor Ade}
auer for political prisoners of t
Nazi regime to be sent back 10
prison “to serve the remainde? —
of their sentences from which
they were illegally released at
the end of the war.’ Y

“It will be difficult to euild
the Wehrmacht so jong as SU¢ ee
elements are able to go about
their.work of undermining CO?”
fidence’”’ he stated in his one
cation.

According to the most Te

cent reports from Bonn, Roe

“is now employed as a special

agent by the ‘Office for the
Protection of the Constitution”
the cover name used by the W®&
German political police.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 12, 1952 — PAGE 1°

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