A fierce Aryanization battle raged over the pipe and blast f... (1937)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
With a crude steel empire that by 1932 rivaled that of Krupp, Flick had lavishly subsidized Heinrich Himmler and the SS. By 1937, he sat atop the largest privately owned iron and steel combine in Germany. In searching for pig iron to feed his steel mills, Flick had long eyed a company known as Lübeck Blast Furnace (Hochofenwerk Lübeck).
chapter: 32 - The Twilight Dynasty