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Bera, Matt
Lobbying Hitler, 01/2016Book Chapter
The German merchant firm Wilhelm Grillo found itself in a dilemma in the early days of the tumultuous year 1940. Another firm, Lampe Delta, a Belgian company that produced pocket flashlights, was having difficulty finding a secure supplier of zinc casings for the three-volt batteries its products used and hoped Grillo could put them in touch with a German machine builder that would provide the equipment required to make them in-house.¹ As a merchant, Grillo wondered whether it would be better to find Lampe Delta a producer that would sell them such a machine, or to locate a battery manufacturer
