War French Artillery
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War French Artillery
Did KRUPP armamaments factory , located in Germany , produce weapons for French, Belgians too before WW1?
as was reading that the Belgians depended on concrete mounded artillery cannon guns (in the ground..similar to the maginot line ?) that were using cannons made by Krupp armamaents and specifically said they were German made..and that the German army during WW1 used "Big Bertha" cannons to destroy all the fortifications with these inside them...ALSO made by Krupp Armaments..(Even said the Big Bertha cannon was named after Krupps daughter)
how and why the Germans would sell war weapons and technology to their enemy..especially ones aimed at them?
how common again in WW2? and has Krupp armamaments ever been forced out of business? why not? and how they started too if you can explain
any details appreciated.
It's a fact that no armaments manufacturer can make a living selling only to the government of the country in which the manufacturer is situated. Unless it's a nationalised industry (as Krupp was for all practical purposes during WW2 - by Hitler's order all control was placed in the hands of one member of the Krupp family (Alfred, I think?) so that one person could himself be controlled by the Reich) the company can sell to whomsoever it wishes within reason. In Britain for example, arms can only be sold abroad to oppressive regimes if they are not the sort of weapons that might be used against the regime's own people but that doesn't mean that the weapons might not be used against us as both the British and Americans found found when we invaded Iraq. Weapons that we had willingly supplied to the Iraqis to help with their war against Iran could just as easily be used against invading forces from other countries including the forces of the countries that had supplied the weapons in the first instance. Similarly in the Falklands war, the greatest loss of British lives was caused by French Exocet missiles. Alliances are shifting all the time and weapons may be sold abroad to countries which are, if not allies are at least not hostile at the point at which they are sold as was the case of Krupp selling to other European nations prior to WW1. It is true that from the late 1800s the Germans had a ready made plan for invading their traditional enemy France and this plan involved marching their armies through Belgium to avoid the heavily fortified border between France and Germany but at the time the weapons were sold there was no indication that the plan was going to be put into effect (indeed if the German government had put pressure on Krupp not to supply the weapons, it might have tipped off the French and Belgians that a war was in the offing).
There are of course even less scrupulous arms dealers such as Bofors, a Swedish company. Sweden remained neutral throughout WW2 and made a fortune by selling weapons to both sides.
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| ESCI Lot x 3 Napoleonic Wars French Imperial Guard & Artillery Sets NIB 1/72 | | | US $21.99 | 26d 19h 35m |
| Del Prado Cavalry Of The Napoleonic Wars Choose From #31 - #60 | | | US $22.10 | 22d 1h 20m |
| Napoleonic War French Guard Artillery Crewmen 54mm | | | US $25.00 | 21d 21h 40m |
| Toy Soldiers French Artillery Set Figures Cannon Armies in Plastic 1/32 REV War | | | US $14.98 | 16d 16h 46m |
| 901-DEL PRADO SOLDIER-NAPOLEON AT WAR-DRIVER,FRENCH ARTILLERY TRAIN,1812 | | | US $11.04 | 12d 17h 30m |
| Italeri 1:72 #6018 Napoleonic Wars French Artillery | | | US $10.99 | 8d 15h 11m |
| ITALERI 6868 NAPOLEONIC WAR 1:32 54mm FRENCH ARTILLERY | | 3 Bids | US $9.48 | 4d 21h 35m |
| Italeri 54mm 1/32 Napoleonic War 1815 French Dragoon Cavalry & Artillery # 6862 | | | US $49.99 | 4d 22h 10m |
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