Kim-Ha Albert

Kim-Ha Albert changed the title of The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968 Friday, February 25, 2011.

Kim-Ha Albert edited the books like this book of The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968 Sunday, July 11, 2010.

• Added Inside the Third Reich This book is similar to William Manchester's brilliant work entitled "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" (1969) insofar that it offers the former German Munitions Minister's perspective of Krupp's rearmament activities of Germany and the Reich after the National Socialist renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and up until the massive production of ordiance and aircraft for Hitler became limited to only a handful of industrialists with Krupp being the premier weapons contractor. Furthermore, both Speer's and Krupp's defense at Nuremberg resulted with the two given jail sentences, whereas most others were sentenced to death. That Speer revealed so many things relayed by Manchester, and that the two different sources corraborate each other's account of the machinations and legerdemain of the SS, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, and the behavior of other top-fry Nazis and organizations within the inner sphere of their Führer, and were like-mindedly obsessed not so much as with winning the war, which later seemed as an incidental or secondary detail, as compared with their fanatical pursuit of making a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Europe and exterminating Bolshevism and every other political or ideological perspective, and surplanting that with a nonsensical dogma formulated my ill-informed madmen wearing the uniforms of only the highest rank without having much in the way of any military experience, background, prowess, and discipline. The friends and members of this small clique of elitist hatemungers who practiced murder and illegal property seizures for, at first only a domestic policy, and later as a matter of enforced foreign policy, in a "world-as-spoil" campaign which completely overlooked or dismissed the grim and most fundamental realities facing the soldiery on every front of what was to become a woefully ill-supplied and thouroughly demoralized military.
• marked the description of Inside the Third Reich as not a spoiler
• Added Inside the Third Reich This book is similar to William Manchester's brilliant work entitled "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" (1969) insofar that it offers the former German Munitions Minister's perspective of Krupp's rearmament activities of Germany and the Reich after the National Socialist renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and up until the massive production of ordiance and aircraft for Hitler became limited to only a handful of industrialists with Krupp being the premier weapons contractor. Furthermore, both Speer's and Krupp's defense at Nuremberg resulted with the two given jail sentences, whereas most others were sentenced to death. That Speer revealed so many things relayed by Manchester, and that the two different sources corraborate each other's account of the machinations and legerdemain of the SS, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, and the behavior of other top-fry Nazis and organizations within the inner sphere of their Führer, and were like-mindedly obsessed not so much as with winning the war, which later seemed as an incidental or secondary detail, as compared with their fanatical pursuit of making a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Europe and exterminating Bolshevism and every other political or ideological perspective, and surplanting that with a nonsensical dogma formulated my ill-informed madmen wearing the uniforms of only the highest rank without having much in the way of any military experience, background, prowess, and discipline. The friends and members of this small clique of elitist hatemungers who practiced murder and illegal property seizures for, at first only a domestic policy, and later as a matter of enforced foreign policy, in a "world-as-spoil" campaign which completely overlooked or dismissed the grim and most fundamental realities facing the soldiery on every front of what was to become a woefully ill-supplied and thouroughly demoralized military.
• marked the description of Inside the Third Reich as not a spoiler
• Added INSIDE THE THIRD REICH MEMOIRS BY ALBERT SPEER This book is similar to William Manchester's brilliant work entitled "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" (1969) insofar that it offers the former German Munitions Minister's perspective of Krupp's rearmament activities of Germany and the Reich after the National Socialist renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and up until the massive production of ordiance and aircraft for Hitler became limited to only a handful of industrialists with Krupp being the premier weapons contractor. Furthermore, both Speer's and Krupp's defense at Nuremberg resulted with the two given jail sentences, whereas most others were sentenced to death. That Speer revealed so many things relayed by Manchester, and that the two different sources corraborate each other's account of the machinations and legerdemain of the SS, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, and the behavior of other top-fry Nazis and organizations within the inner sphere of their Führer, and were like-mindedly obsessed not so much as with winning the war, which later seemed as an incidental or secondary detail, as compared with their fanatical pursuit of making a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Europe and exterminating Bolshevism and every other political or ideological perspective, and surplanting that with a nonsensical dogma formulated my ill-informed madmen wearing the uniforms of only the highest rank without having much in the way of any military experience, background, prowess, and discipline. The friends and members of this small clique of elitist hatemungers who practiced murder and illegal property seizures for, at first only a domestic policy, and later as a matter of enforced foreign policy, in a "world-as-spoil" campaign which completely overlooked or dismissed the grim and most fundamental realities facing the soldiery on every front of what was to become a woefully ill-supplied and thouroughly demoralized military.
• marked the description of INSIDE THE THIRD REICH MEMOIRS BY ALBERT SPEER as not a spoiler
• Added Inside the Third Reich This book is similar to William Manchester's brilliant work entitled "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" (1969) insofar that it offers the former German Munitions Minister's perspective of Krupp's rearmament activities of Germany and the Reich after the National Socialist renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and up until the massive production of ordiance and aircraft for Hitler became limited to only a handful of industrialists with Krupp being the premier weapons contractor. Furthermore, both Speer's and Krupp's defense at Nuremberg resulted with the two given jail sentences, whereas most others were sentenced to death. That Speer revealed so many things relayed by Manchester, and that the two different sources corraborate each other's account of the machinations and legerdemain of the SS, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, and the behavior of other top-fry Nazis and organizations within the inner sphere of their Führer, and were like-mindedly obsessed not so much as with winning the war, which later seemed as an incidental or secondary detail, as compared with their fanatical pursuit of making a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Europe and exterminating Bolshevism and every other political or ideological perspective, and surplanting that with a nonsensical dogma formulated my ill-informed madmen wearing the uniforms of only the highest rank without having much in the way of any military experience, background, prowess, and discipline. The friends and members of this small clique of elitist hatemungers who practiced murder and illegal property seizures for, at first only a domestic policy, and later as a matter of enforced foreign policy, in a "world-as-spoil" campaign which completely overlooked or dismissed the grim and most fundamental realities facing the soldiery on every front of what was to become a woefully ill-supplied and thouroughly demoralized military.
• marked the description of Inside the Third Reich as not a spoiler
• Added Inside the Third Reich This book is similar to William Manchester's brilliant work entitled "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" (1969) insofar that it offers the former German Munitions Minister's perspective of Krupp's rearmament activities of Germany and the Reich after the National Socialist renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and up until the massive production of ordiance and aircraft for Hitler became limited to only a handful of industrialists with Krupp being the premier weapons contractor. Furthermore, both Speer's and Krupp's defense at Nuremberg resulted with the two given jail sentences, whereas most others were sentenced to death. That Speer revealed so many things relayed by Manchester, and that the two different sources corraborate each other's account of the machinations and legerdemain of the SS, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, and the behavior of other top-fry Nazis and organizations within the inner sphere of their Führer, and were like-mindedly obsessed not so much as with winning the war, which later seemed as an incidental or secondary detail, as compared with their fanatical pursuit of making a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Europe and exterminating Bolshevism and every other political or ideological perspective, and surplanting that with a nonsensical dogma formulated my ill-informed madmen wearing the uniforms of only the highest rank without having much in the way of any military experience, background, prowess, and discipline. The friends and members of this small clique of elitist hatemungers who practiced murder and illegal property seizures for, at first only a domestic policy, and later as a matter of enforced foreign policy, in a "world-as-spoil" campaign which completely overlooked or dismissed the grim and most fundamental realities facing the soldiery on every front of what was to become a woefully ill-supplied and thouroughly demoralized military.
• marked the description of Inside the Third Reich as not a spoiler
• Added Inside the Third Reich This book is similar to William Manchester's brilliant work entitled "The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968" (1969) insofar that it offers the former German Munitions Minister's perspective of Krupp's rearmament activities of Germany and the Reich after the National Socialist renunciation of the Treaty of Versailles and up until the massive production of ordiance and aircraft for Hitler became limited to only a handful of industrialists with Krupp being the premier weapons contractor. Furthermore, both Speer's and Krupp's defense at Nuremberg resulted with the two given jail sentences, whereas most others were sentenced to death. That Speer revealed so many things relayed by Manchester, and that the two different sources corraborate each other's account of the machinations and legerdemain of the SS, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, and the behavior of other top-fry Nazis and organizations within the inner sphere of their Führer, and were like-mindedly obsessed not so much as with winning the war, which later seemed as an incidental or secondary detail, as compared with their fanatical pursuit of making a Judenfrei (Jew-Free) Europe and exterminating Bolshevism and every other political or ideological perspective, and surplanting that with a nonsensical dogma formulated my ill-informed madmen wearing the uniforms of only the highest rank without having much in the way of any military experience, background, prowess, and discipline. The friends and members of this small clique of elitist hatemungers who practiced murder and illegal property seizures for, at first only a domestic policy, and later as a matter of enforced foreign policy, in a "world-as-spoil" campaign which completely overlooked or dismissed the grim and most fundamental realities facing the soldiery on every front of what was to become a woefully ill-supplied and thouroughly demoralized military.
• marked the description of Inside the Third Reich as not a spoiler

Kim-Ha Albert edited the summary of William Manchester Saturday, July 10, 2010.

• With the release of his block-buster "The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968" (1968),  Manchester had established himself as the foremost authority on the tribunal surrounding the post World War II era war crimes conviction of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the last sole-proprietor of the German steel concern formerly known as Fried. Krupp A.G, and the subsequent commutation, less than five years later, of the sentence of  lifetime imprisonment, by the American High Commissioner in Germany, the flamboyant New York banker John J. McCloy, who later became his close friend as well as an important member of his American social circle.  But in this heavily footnoted volume, Manchester takes the reader through the 500 year history of the firm by telling the story of Germany before the industrial revolution, through the French Revolution, and the Germany which was going to come to exist after the Franco-Prussian War, and thus setting the stage for the former iron maker's becoming Germany's and the world's premier ordinance manufacturer.  The precidents which were set by the Kaisers, and the relationship the Krupp dynasty had established with any and every German government thereafter, made the House of Krupp a state-within-a-state, and more privileged in every aspect of the affairs of secret commerce and national security than any other German "Aktien-Gesellschaft" (Joint Stock Company), a position it had come to hold until the death of the last heir, Herr Alfried, in July 1968.  But Alfried, Manchester relates, was far more than a war criminal:  He had a keen passion for detail running his multi-million deutsche Mark enterprise, treated his employees with paternal affection, shyly avoided the press, photographers, and others who would shine the limelight upon him or write inflammatory articles about his company, his family, or his wealth. Through  Manchester, one comes away with the nature of a contemplative man who enjoyed chain-smoking his beloved Camel  cigarettes alone in the dark, listening to reel-to-reel tapes of Wagner, spending time with his former classmates' reunion in Aachen, where he attended the Technische Hochschule, enjoyed racing his private automobile, a Porsche, up the streets of his native Essen, and knew practically everyone there, and anyone who was worth knowing in Germany, if not the world. He had a propensity to involve himself, after the World War, in humanitarian affairs.   He was one of the first members of the community of German industrialists to voluntarily pay the survivors of his Krupp-run slave labour camps; albeit he was no Schindler, of which Manchester graphically makes the reader aware, he was indeed, a man full of glaring contradictions, confusing idiosyncracies, and a few neurotic ticks which tend to humanize him, and this aspect of Manchester's work, offsets some of the more greusome Nuremberg testimony, which would easily incline one to believe he was nothing more nor less than an insensitive monster. Manchester, a former U.S. Marine  fighting Nazis in Germany, was no sympathizer.  But he was fair: Manchester reveals the tales of a sad and lonely man who was reformed and able to tolerate the still moments of  predawn reflection without flinching. Manchester's carefully constructedcrafted prose are of a unique style which makewhich allows the book to read fluidly, and it is not at all unlike a captivating novel. It is witty, sometimes funny, and truly reflective of anof the astute and erudite scholar which he had become, and it is clearly easy to see that some of the writings found within this brilliant biographical and historical document, formulated the foundation for his building and creating his later work, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1963 (1978).  But that is another story!

Kim-Ha Albert edited the summary of William Manchester Saturday, July 10, 2010.

• With the release of his block-buster "The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968" (1968),  Manchester had established himself as the foremost authority on the tribunal surrounding the post World War II era war crimes conviction of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the last sole-proprietor of the German steel concern formerly known as Fried. Krupp A.G, and the subsequent commutation, less than five years later, of the sentence of  lifetime imprisonment, by the American High Commissioner in Germany, the flamboyant New York banker John J. McCloy, who later became his close friend as well as an important member of his American social circle.  But in this heavily footnoted volume, Manchester takes the reader through the 500 year history of the firm by telling the story of Germany before the industrial revolution, through the French Revolution, and the Germany which was going to come to exist after the Franco-Prussian War, and thus setting the stage for the former iron maker's becoming Germany's and the world's premier ordinance manufacturer.  The precidents which were set by the Kaisers, and the relationship the Krupp dynasty had established with any and every German government thereafter, made the House of Krupp a state-within-a-state, and more privileged in every aspect of the affairs of secret commerce and national security than any other German "Aktien-Gesellschaft" (Joint Stock Company), a position it had come to hold until the death of the last heir, Herr Alfried, in July 1968.  But Alfried, Manchester relates, was far more than a war criminal:  He had a keen passion for detail running his multi-million deutsche Mark enterprise, treated his employees with paternal affection, shyly avoided the press, photographers, and others who would shine the limelight upon him or write inflammatory articles about his company, his family, or his wealth. Through  Manchester, one comes away with the nature of a contemplative man who enjoyed chain-smoking his beloved Camel  cigarettes alone in the dark, listening to reel-to-reel tapes of Wagner, spending time with his former classmates' reunion in Aachen, where he attended the Technische Hochschule, enjoyed racing his private automobile, a Porsche, up the streets of his native Essen, and knew practically everyone there, and anyone who was worth knowing in Germany, if not the world. He had a propensity to involve himself, after the World War, in humanitarian affairs.   He was one of the first members of the community of German industrialists to voluntarily pay the survivors of his Krupp-run slave labour camps; albeit he was no Schindler, of which Manchester graphically makes the reader aware, he was indeed, a man full of glaring contradictions, confusing idiosyncracies, and a few neurotic ticks which tend to humanize him, and this aspect of Manchester's work, offsets some of the more greusome Nuremberg testimony, which would easily incline one to believe he was nothing more nor less than an insensitive monster. Manchester, a former U.S. Marine in fighting NazisMarine  fighting Nazis in Germany, was no sympathizer.  But he was fair: Manchester reveals the tales of a sad and lonely man who was reformed and able to tolerate the still moments of  predawn reflection without flinching. Manchester's bookflinching. Manchester's carefully constructed prose are of a style which make the book read not at all unlike a captivating novel. It is witty, sometimes funny, and truly reflective of an astute and erudite scholar which he had become, and it is clearly easy to see that some of the writings found within this brilliant biographical and historical document, formedformulated the foundation for his building and creating his later work, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1963 (1978).  But that is another story!

Kim-Ha Albert edited the summary of William Manchester Saturday, July 10, 2010.

• With the release of his block-buster "The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968" (1968),  Manchester had established himself as the foremost authority on the tribunal surrounding the post World War II era war crimes conviction of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the last sole-proprietor of the German steel concern formerly known as Fried. Krupp A.G, and the subsequent commutation, less than five years later, of the sentence of  lifetime imprisonment, by the American High Commissioner in Germany, the flamboyant New York banker John J. McCloy, who later became his close friend as well as an important member of his American social circle.  But in this heavily footnoted volume, Manchester takes the reader through the 500 year history of the firm by telling the story of Germany before the industrial revolution, through the French Revolution, and the Germany which was going to come to exist after the Franco-Prussian War, and thus setting the stage for the former iron maker's becoming Germany's and the world's premier ordinance manufacturer.  The precidents which were set by the Kaisers, and the relationship the Krupp dynasty had established with any and every German government thereafter, made the House of Krupp a state-within-a-state, and more privileged in every aspect of the affairs of secret commerce and national security than any other German "Aktien-Gesellschaft" (Joint Stock Company), a position it had come to hold until the death of the last heir, Herr Alfried, in July 1968.  But Alfried, Manchester relates, was far more than a war criminal:  He had a keen passion for detail running his multi-million deutsche Mark enterprise, treated his employees with paternal affection, shyly avoided the press, photographers, and others who would shine the limelight upon him or write inflammatory articles about his company, his family, or his wealth. Through  Manchester, one comes away with the nature of a contemplative man who enjoyed chain-smoking his beloved Camel  cigarettes alone in the dark, listening to reel-to-reel tapes of Wagner, spending time with his former classmates' reunion in Aachen, where he attended the Technische Hochschule, enjoyed racing his private automobile, a Porsche, up the streets of his native Essen, and knew practically everyone there, and anyone who was worth knowing in Germany, if not the world. He had a propensity to involve himself, after the World War, to involve himselfin humanitarian affairs, heaffairs.   He was one of the first members of the community of German industrialists to voluntarily pay the survivors of his Krupp-run slave labour camps; albeit he was no Schindler, of which Manchester graphically makes the reader aware, he was indeed, a man full of glaring contradictions, confusing idiosyncracies, and a few neurotic ticks which tend to humanize him, and this aspect of Manchester's work, offsets some of the more greusome Nuremberg testimony, which would easily incline one to believe he was nothing more nor less than an insensitive monster.  Manchester'smonster. Manchester, a former U.S. Marine in fighting Nazis in Germany, was no sympathizer.  But Manchester reveals the tales of a sad and lonely man who was reformed and able to tolerate the still moments of  predawn reflection without flinching. Manchester's book prose are of a style which make the book read not at all unlike a captivating novel. It is witty, sometimes funny, and truly reflective of an astute and erudite scholar which he had become, and it is clearly easy to see that some of the writings found within this brilliant biographical and historical document, formed the foundation for his later work, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1963 (1978).  But that is another story!

Kim-Ha Albert edited the summary of William Manchester Saturday, July 10, 2010.

• With the release of his block-buster "The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968" (1968),  Manchester had established himself as the foremost authority on the tribunal surrounding the post World War II era war crimes conviction of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the last sole-proprietor of the German steel concern formerly known as Fried. Krupp A.G,.and the subsequentA.G, and the subsequent commutation, less than five years later, of the sentence of  lifetime imprisonment, by the American High Commissioner in Germany, the flamboyant New York banker John J. McCloy, who later became his close friend as well as an important member of his American social circle.  But in this heavily footnoted volume, Manchester takes the reader through the 500 year history of the firm by telling the story of Germany before the industrial revolution, through the French Revolution, and the Germany which was going to come to exist after the Franco-Prussian War, and thus setting the stage for the former iron maker's becoming Germany's and the world's premier ordinance manufacturer.  The precidents which were set by the Kaisers, and the relationship the Krupp dynasty had established with any and every German government thereafter, made the House of Krupp a state-within-a-state, and more privileged in every aspect of the affairs of secret commerce and national security than any other German "Aktien-Gesellschaft" (Joint Stock Company), a position it had come to hold until the death of the last heir, Herr Alfried, in July 1968.  But Alfried, Manchester relates, was far more than a war criminal:  He had a keen passion for detail running his multi-million deutsche Mark enterprise, treated his employees with paternal affection, shyly avoided the press, photographers, and others who would shine the limelight upon him or write inflammatory articles about his company, his family, or his wealth. Through  Manchester, one comes away with the nature of a contemplative man who enjoyed chain-smoking his beloved Camel  cigarettes alone in the dark, listening to reel-to-reel tapes of Wagner, spending time with his former classmates' reunion in Aachen, where he attended the Technische Hochschule, enjoyed racing his private automobile, a Porsche, up the streets of his native Essen, and knew practically everyone there, and anyone who was worth knowing in Germany, if not the world. He had a propensity to involve himself, after the World War, to involve himself in humanitarian affairs, he was one of the first members of the community of German industrialists to voluntarily pay the survivors of his Krupp-run slave labour camps; albeit he was no Schindler, of which Manchester graphically makes the reader aware, he was indeed, a man full of glaring contradictions, confusing idiosyncracies, and a few neurotic ticks which tend to humanize him, and this aspect of Manchester's work, offsets some of the more greusome Nuremberg testimony, which would easily incline one to believe he was nothing more nor less than an insensitive monster.  Manchester's book prose are of a style which make the book read not at all unlike a captivating novel. It is witty, sometimes funny, and truly reflective of an astute and erudite scholar which he had become, and it is clearly easy to see that some of the writings found within this brilliant biographical and historical document, formed the foundation for his later work, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1963 (1978).  But that is another story!

Kim-Ha Albert edited the summary of William Manchester Saturday, July 10, 2010.

• With the release of his block-buster "The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968" (1968),  Manchester had established himself as the foremost authority on the tribunal surrounding the post World War II era war crimes conviction of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and the subsequent commutationthe last sole-proprietor of histhe German steel concern formerly known as Fried. Krupp A.G,.and the subsequent commutation, less than five years later, of the sentence of  lifetime imprisonment, by the American High Commissioner in Germany, the flamboyant New York banker John J. McCloy.McCloy, who later became his close friend as well as an important member of his American social circle.  But in this heavily footnoted volume, Manchester takes the reader through the 500 year history of the firm by telling the story of Germany before the industrial revolution, through the French Revolution, and the Germany which was going to come to exist after the Franco-Prussian War, and thus setting the stage for the former iron maker's becoming Germany's and the world's premier ordinance manufacturer.  The precidents which were set by the Kaisers, and the relationship the Krupp dynasty had established with any and every German government thereafter, made the House of Krupp a state-within-a-state, and more privileged in every aspect of the affairs of secret commerce and national security than any other German "Aktien-Gesellschaft" (Joint Stock Company), a position it had come to hold until the death of the last heir, Herr Alfried, in July 1968.  But Alfried, Manchester relates, was far more than a war criminal:  He had a keen passion for detail running his multi-million deutsche Mark enterprise, treated his employees with paternal affection, shyly avoided the press, photographers, and others who would shine the limelight upon him or write inflammatory articles about his company, his family, or his wealth. Through  Manchester, one comes away with the nature of a contemplative man who enjoyed chain-smoking his beloved Camel  cigarettes alone in the dark, listening to reel-to-reel tapes of Wagner, spending time with his former classmates' reunion in Aachen, where he attended the Technische Hochschule, enjoyed racing his private automobile, a Porsche, up the streets of his native Essen, and knew practically everyone there, and anyone who was worth knowing in Germany, if not the world. He had a propensity to involve himself, after the World War, to involve himself in humanitarian affairs, he was one of the first members of the community of German industrialists to voluntarily pay the survivors of his Krupp-run slave labour camps; albeit he was no Schindler, of which Manchester graphically makes the reader aware, he was indeed, a man full of glaring contradictions, confusing idiosyncracies, and a few neurotic ticks which tend to humanize him, and this aspect of Manchester's work, offsets some of the more greusome Nuremberg testimony, which would easily incline one to believe he was nothing more nor less than an insensitive monster.  Manchester's book prose are of a style which make the book read not at all unlike a captivating novel. It is witty, sometimes funny, and truly reflective of an astute and erudite scholar which he had become, and it is clearly easy to see that some of the writings found within this brilliant biographical and historical document, formed the foundation for his later work, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1963 (1978).  But that is another story!

Kim-Ha Albert edited the bio of Wilfred G. Burchett Friday, July 18, 2008.

Kim-Ha Albert edited the bio of Xua?n H??ng Ho?? Friday, July 18, 2008.

Kim-Ha Albert edited the bio of Xua?n H??ng Ho?? Friday, July 18, 2008.