Krupp family

And that's why he was executed, if you can believe that.

a fascinating wrinkle of this is that, uh, the, uh, everybody's familiar with the Krupp arms, uh, works and the Krupp family.

Um, The French demanded that some member of the Krupp family be indicted, but the patriarch of the Krupp family was totally senile.

There was an effort to indict the son, but it was difficult to place him in any position.

in any indictable role uh there's discussion of

We're now on our way to Essen, which is the second largest city in the Ruhr and just a short train ride away from Dortmund.

It was once a really important coal and steel center within Germany, being home of the Krupp family, for example, where they started their famous and large steel empire.

but also a really important coal centre with the Zollfein coal mine being one of the largest and also considered one of the most beautiful coal mines in the country.

It was once the fifth largest city in Germany with over 700,000 people living there, but it's today slipped behind Dortmund in more ways than one.