[NorthMountain]

In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family, financiers of the Third Reich.

The Krupp family in 1897 had never heard of the Third Reich. Nor had anyone else. What sort of nonsense propaganda is this author trying to shove down our throats?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Oil should stay where it is. It’s needed in the ground for the earth to lubricate its axis.

[pierrem15]

Even if you read as "later financiers of the Third Reich," it's nonsense.

The Krupps were steelmakers who, incidentally, first made their fortune exporting railroad wheels to the US. The three interlocking circles used as a Krupp trademark (now Thyssen-Krupp) are symbols of rail wheels, not gun barrels, as is often asserted. They did make heavy guns in both WWI and WWII, including the Paris Gun and the huge "Karl Gustav" used in the siege of Sebastopol in WWII.

As far as the Third Reich goes, the then head of the family chain-smoked Camels and in 1939, seeing where the winds were blowing, had a whole room in the family mansion stuffed with cartons of Camels.