Fall And Rise of the House of Krupp
- Producing Organization
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Incorporated Television Programme Company
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-tm71v5cj0b
- NOLA Code
- MFRH
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- Description
- Program Description
- 30 minute program, produced in 1965 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, originally shot on videotape.
- Program Description
- The story is presented by the use of newsreels, documentary film extracts, photographs, specially filmed sequences and interviews. By objectively presenting the material, this film attempts to provide the answer to the question: How has the Krupp family succeed twice in defying international efforts to crush it? It traces the history of this great German steel enterprise through two world wars to the present day. The Krupp saga began in 1811 when Frederich Krupp opened his small steel workshop in Essen. Soon he had a large industrial empire, one of the leading heavy industry and engineering combines in the world. But by manufacturing armaments -- bought by Egypt, Belgium and Russia, also used by Bismarck in his wars against Austria and France -- the Krupps became known as merchants of death. Their guns -- Big Bertha and Long Max -- wrought death and destruction in the First World War on Germanys enemies. Germany was defeated. Gustav von Bohlen and Halbach, who had married the eldest daughter of the founders grandson and had become chief of the firm, was cited as a war criminal and imprisoned. But he only served one year of his fifteen year imprisonment and despite allied avowal that the House of Krupp would Never rise again and despite close allied supervision, by the advent of Hitler the firm was again forging weapons of war. During World War II the devastation on Krupp was enormous. RAF bombers made more than 11,000 stories over Essen, dropping some 36,000 tons of bombs, most of them on the three square miles of Krupp. Again allied victory, and again Gustav, and this time his son Alfred, who had become head of the firm in 1943, were charged with war crimes. Because of his age and ill health, Gustav did not stand trial, but Alfred was sentenced at Nuremburg for both war crimes and brutally exploiting slave labor. In the same pattern, he only served a short sentence before being released. His industrial genius was need to help German industry rise again -- so that starving workers in the Ruhr would be supplied with work and shelter. Soon the empire was powerful again. But this time it has been built up for peace and not for war. It has brought prosperity back to the Ruhr. Its workers are being looked after as in its early days -- receiving medical care, education, housing and pensions -- all from the Krupp enterprise. Alfred Krupp, though branded as a war criminal, is somewhat of a father-figure to the people that work for him. The Rise and Fall of the House of Krupp was written and produced by Peter Batty for Incorporated Television Company Ltd. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1965-08-02
- Asset type
- Program
- Genres
- Documentary
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Narrator: Archard, Bernard
Producer: Batty, Peter, 1931-
Producing Organization: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Producing Organization: Incorporated Television Programme Company
Writer: Batty, Peter, 1931-
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Fall And Rise of the House of Krupp,” 1965-08-02, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-tm71v5cj0b.
- MLA: “Fall And Rise of the House of Krupp.” 1965-08-02. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-tm71v5cj0b>.
- APA: Fall And Rise of the House of Krupp. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-tm71v5cj0b