ARMING OF NAZIS
SECRET DISCLOSURES ACTIVITY OF AMERICAN FIRM EVIDENCE BEFORE U.S.A. COMMITTEE SMALL ARMS FOR HOLLAND JFj Telegraph—Pre-s Association—Copyright! Received Sept. 18. 8.20 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. The Senate Investigating Committee has issued a report of secret testimony, taken months ago, indicating that the giant firm of Dupont de Demours holds an active financial interest in the rearming of .Nazi Germany. It is revealed that the company owned 7.98 per cent, of the Dynamit Action Gesbachft, a holdings company for German munitions firms, and had an agreement with the firm to share trade secrets and divide world markets. Evidence is also published indicating that Dupons did considerable small arms business in Holland before Herr Hitler’s repudiation of disarmament, and much of this was smuggled into Germany for the equipping of Nazi Storm Troops.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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134ARMING OF NAZIS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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