PJ, Wasn't it the other way around? Krupp paid Sheffield for every shell they fired. in WWI. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:54 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > The British in WWI used a Krupp designed fuse under license, on their > artillery shells. Every one of those shells that the British fired at the > Germans resulted in a payment to an escrow account to be paid to Krupp at > the end of hostilities. A bit of irony there. > > On 9/2/2015 12:33 AM, John wrote: >> >> That was kind of my point, that most of the support U.S. companies have >> been criticized for giving Hitler happened before the war. >> >> The companies profited from their German subsidiaries in the period >> between when Britain, France & Germany went to war, but once the U.S. >> entered the war, they had no actual control over the German subsidiaries. >> >> They did kind of gloss over how the German subsidiaries had made profits >> the U.S. companies collected after the war was over. >> >> On 9/1/2015 9:18 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>> Much of this of course was in the mid 1930s when the world was still >>> not sure what to think of Hitler. The British were initially >>> supportive as well, and companies from around the world traded with >>> Germany. >>> >>> Paul via phone >>> >>>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Daniel J. Matyola >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:03 PM, John <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: US Steel, Ford, General Motors and IBM were all investors >>>>> in Germany >>>> >>>> >>>> And Joe Kennedy Sr was one of Germany's greatest admirers. >>>> >>>> >>>> Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
