Amelia zur Helle Thyssen

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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen

German industrialist and philanthropist

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contribution to Thyssen saga

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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen (b. 1878?—d. Aug. 25, 1965, Puchhof, Bavaria, W.Ger.) inherited the Thyssen steel and coal empire upon the death of her husband, Fritz, in 1951. During World War II she had voluntarily joined her husband at the Dachau concentration camp and later…
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