A book about the Krupp dynasty cannot be limited to family joys and troubles. Their destinies are closely intertwined with the destinies of their native country. The Krupps were the main suppliers of weapons to the Kaiser's Germany and financed Hitler's political campaign. After the war, having survived the shame of Nuremberg, they became leaders in the field of the nuclear industry and aircraft construction. The author, tracing the mystical connection of the dynasty of industrialists with their native Germany, shows how its representatives, paradoxically combining idealism and practicality, were a living symbol of German industry.