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The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp
The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
1. Under the War Lord's Thumb
2. Weaving the Toils Round Bertha Krupp
3. A Mother's Reflections
4. Bertha Krupp, War Lady, Asserts Herself
5. How the War Lady was Cajoled
6. Fraulein Krupp Invited to Court
7. In the Crown Prince's Private Room
8. Stories of Court Life
9. What the Maid Saw and Heard
10. The Entangling of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
11. The Crown Prince on a Lark
12. The Fortune Teller sees Bertha in a Haze of Blood
13. "We will Divide the World Between Us"
14. Getting Even with the War Lord
15. "Auntie Majesty" and Bertha
16. How Franz Ferdinand was Fooled
17. Diamond Cut Diamond
18. A Secret Service Episode
19. Bertha and Franz
20. "Auntie Majesty" and her Frocks
21. Throttling Bavaria
22. Paying the Price
23. How Von Bohlen was Chosen
24. The War Lord's Day in Essen
25. A Royal Liar
26. Explaining "The Day"
27. Bertha's Wedding Day
28. A Foreshadowing of "Lusitaniaism"
29. Some More Secret History
30. Browbeating the War Lady
31. A Great State Secret
THE SECRET MEMOIRS OF
BERTHA KRUPP
Si Krupp nobiscum, quis contra nos?
CHAPTER I
UNDER THE WAR LORD'S THUMB
The Real War Lord—Putting on the Screw—The Kaiser's Plot Revealed—Disinheriting the Baroness—A Startler for the War Lord—Bertha to be Sole Heiress—Frederick Makes His Will—The War Lord Loses his Temper—A Base Suggestion
On a bright August day of 1902 the neighbourhood of Villa Huegel, overlooking the forest of smoke-stacks, cranes, masts and other erections that silhouette the town of Essen, was like an armed camp. Its master, Frederick Krupp, cannon king and war promoter, while not entitled to household troops, has an army of firemen as large as the contingent of the mighty potentate of Reuss-Greiz-Schleiz-Lobenstein, and this was pre-eminently the season and hour of military display.
The Krupp warriors resemble Prussian infantry in dress. In discipline and aggressiveness they are second to none serving under the eye of the "All Highest," as the Kaiser fondly calls himself. Give their master a dark look as he passes, and one or more of them will pounce upon you and pound you to jelly before you can say Jack Robinson; reach for your handkerchief or pencil in your back trouser-pocket, where a revolver might be, and they will spit you on their fire-axe.
To-day Krupp firemen were everywhere. They lined the roads, guarded crossings and bridges, looked up at every window, sentinelled gates and doors. They were posted, too, in the tree-tops and on telegraph and signal posts, while indoors, along the corridors of the villa, you met them at every turn. Right royal arrangement that! Yet why at Huegel?
CHAPTER
1. Under the War Lord's Thumb
2. Weaving the Toils Round Bertha Krupp
3. A Mother's Reflections
4. Bertha Krupp, War Lady, Asserts Herself
5. How the War Lady was Cajoled
6. Fraulein Krupp Invited to Court
7. In the Crown Prince's Private Room
8. Stories of Court Life
9. What the Maid Saw and Heard
10. The Entangling of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
11. The Crown Prince on a Lark
12. The Fortune Teller sees Bertha in a Haze of Blood
13. "We will Divide the World Between Us"
14. Getting Even with the War Lord
15. "Auntie Majesty" and Bertha
16. How Franz Ferdinand was Fooled
17. Diamond Cut Diamond
18. A Secret Service Episode
19. Bertha and Franz
20. "Auntie Majesty" and her Frocks
21. Throttling Bavaria
22. Paying the Price
23. How Von Bohlen was Chosen
24. The War Lord's Day in Essen
25. A Royal Liar
26. Explaining "The Day"
27. Bertha's Wedding Day
28. A Foreshadowing of "Lusitaniaism"
29. Some More Secret History
30. Browbeating the War Lady
31. A Great State Secret
THE SECRET MEMOIRS OF
BERTHA KRUPP
Si Krupp nobiscum, quis contra nos?
CHAPTER I
UNDER THE WAR LORD'S THUMB
The Real War Lord—Putting on the Screw—The Kaiser's Plot Revealed—Disinheriting the Baroness—A Startler for the War Lord—Bertha to be Sole Heiress—Frederick Makes His Will—The War Lord Loses his Temper—A Base Suggestion
On a bright August day of 1902 the neighbourhood of Villa Huegel, overlooking the forest of smoke-stacks, cranes, masts and other erections that silhouette the town of Essen, was like an armed camp. Its master, Frederick Krupp, cannon king and war promoter, while not entitled to household troops, has an army of firemen as large as the contingent of the mighty potentate of Reuss-Greiz-Schleiz-Lobenstein, and this was pre-eminently the season and hour of military display.
The Krupp warriors resemble Prussian infantry in dress. In discipline and aggressiveness they are second to none serving under the eye of the "All Highest," as the Kaiser fondly calls himself. Give their master a dark look as he passes, and one or more of them will pounce upon you and pound you to jelly before you can say Jack Robinson; reach for your handkerchief or pencil in your back trouser-pocket, where a revolver might be, and they will spit you on their fire-axe.
To-day Krupp firemen were everywhere. They lined the roads, guarded crossings and bridges, looked up at every window, sentinelled gates and doors. They were posted, too, in the tree-tops and on telegraph and signal posts, while indoors, along the corridors of the villa, you met them at every turn. Right royal arrangement that! Yet why at Huegel?
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