Hell's Cartel IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine

Name: Hell's Cartel IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
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ISBN: 9780805091434

ISBN-10: 0805091432

ISBN-13: 9780805091434

Edition: N/A

Authors: Diarmuid Jeffreys

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?A damning new history . . .Jeffreys brings a rare combination of forensic acumen and narrative flair.? ?Chicago TribuneAt its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel?the aspirin maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF?continue to play key roles in the global market. IG Farben itself, however, is remembered mostly for its infamous connections to the Nazi Party and its complicity in the atrocities of the Holocaust. After the war, Farben?s leaders were tried for crimes that included mass murder and exploitation of slave labor.InHell?s…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Prologue



From Perkin's Purple to Duisberg's Drugs



The Golden Years



The Chemists' War



The Birth of a Colossus



Bosch's Plan



Striking the Bargain



Accommodation and Collaboration



From Long Knives to the Four-Year Plan



Preparing for War



War and Profit



Buna at Auschwitz



IG Auschwitz and the Final Solution



Gï¿½tterï¿½mmerung



Preparing the Case



Trial


Epilogue


Postscript


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index