Kanonaffärsdoftande Historia

2022-12-13

Stålkanoner - Krupp - "Licenstillverkling"

Gehlen kände väl Thede Palm..

Den svenskkonstruerade snabbskjutande Bofors 40-mm-kanonen var det mest använda luftvärnsvapnet under andra världskriget . I konflikten 1939–45 fanns Bofors i de flesta allierade och axelnationers arsenal och på alla krigets teatrar.

Gehlens grupp hette som av en slump just Bolero..

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Eller som Hjalmar Schacht, uttryckte sig i ett brev till A. Hitler i november 1932.

” It seems as if our attempt to collect a number of signatures from business circles for this purpose

(your becoming Chancellor) was not altogether in vain “

“For the period of transition from 1919 up to rearmament, A. K. [Krupp] had undertaken various tasks, in order to keep up the Company's activity in the field of artillery, in the sense of observing activities in that field in the rest of the world (relation: BOFORS) and then also for the production of artillery material, within and to a certain extent also beyond, the limitation established by the peace dictate”

Table 2-2: The Directors of American I.G. at 1930:

American I,G.

Director Citizenship Other Major Associations

Carl BOSCH German FORD MOTOR CO. A-G

Edsel B. FORD U.S. FORD MOTOR CO. DETROIT

Max ILGNER German Directed I.G. FARBEN N.W.7 (INTELLIGENCE) office. Guilty at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

F. Ter MEER German Guilty at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

H.A. METZ U.S. Director of I.G. Farben Germany and BANK OF MANHATTAN (U.S.)

C.E. MITCHELL U.S. Director of FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF N.Y. and NATIONAL CITY BANK

Herman SCHMITZ German On boards of I.G. Farben (President) (Germany) Deutsche Bank (Germany) and BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS. Guilty at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

Walter TEAGLE U.S. Director FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK and STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY

W.H. yon RATH Naturalized Director of GERMAN GENERAL U.S. ELECTRIC (A.E.G.)

Paul M. WARBURG U.S. First member of the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK and BANK OF MANHATTAN

W.E. WEISS U.S. Sterling Products

Source: Moody's Manual of Investments; 1930, p. 2149.

Note: Walter DUISBERG (U.S.), W. GRIEF (U.S.), and Adolf KUTTROFF (U.S.) were also Directors of American I.G. Farben at this period.