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unusual facts about Arms industry


Gordon Foxley

He was convicted on 12 counts of corruption in 1993 after he took bribes from arms manufacturers to set up defence contracts.


Three Californias Trilogy

In The Gold Coast (1988) we learn about the Southern California of 2027, a dystopian extension of today's Los Angeles and car-oriented architecture, mobility and life-style: "an endless sprawl of condos, freeways and malls." The book describes the life of 27-year-old Jim McPherson, who finds himself caught up in literary and academic interests, anti-weapons-industry terrorism, drugs, parties and casual sex.

War crimes trials

Among the accused were the Nationalist Socialist leaders Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess, the diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop, the munitions maker Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and 18 other military leaders and civilian officials.


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Tadeusz Tański

After the war he remained one of the engineers working for the Polish arms industry, most notably the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe company.