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Krupp, Germany’s Wealthiest Subject

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 7.

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Krupp, Germany’s Wealthiest Subject

“It has been held that the greatest obstacle to that disarmament of the nations which was seriously talked of only a few years ago, and now seems as far away as the millennium,” says the Springfield Republican, “is the economic objection to doing away with the vast industries that are dependent upon war and preparations for war. It is illustrative of this that the new figures published in Germany show that by far the wealthiest subject of the kaiser is Herr Krupp, the cannon-maker. The fact was known before, but it is news that his wealth is more than double that of any other German.”