Bruno stood in a warehouse on the outskirts of Berlin. The name written on the sign out front, beyond the chain-link fence stated that the property belonged to the von Zehntner Agricultural.
What started as a decent-sized arms corporation responsible for providing largely munitions to the German Army had expanded into a vertically integrated empire across all major sectors of industry.
In any country based upon post-Enlightenment liberal values and free market principles the state would break up such a behemoth of industry and re-consolidate into a hundred smaller corporations.
But the von Zehntner consortium was the personal holding of a Royal Family and the source of their enormous wealth. Naturally, the German Reich had no interest in seizing personal assets from any citizen in the name of "fairness," let alone a member of the aristocracy; and the higher echelons at that.
