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

by Jeffreys, Diarmuid

• ISBN13: 9780805078138
• ISBN10: 0805078134
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-22
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Summary

The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates At 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. In Hell's Cartel , Diarmuid Jeffreys presents the first comprehensive account of IG Farben's rise and fall, tracing the enterprise from its nineteenth-century origins, when the discovery of synthetic dyes gave rise to a vibrant new industry, through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the company's fateful role in World War II. Drawing on extensive research and original interviews, Hell's Cartel sheds new light on the codependence of industry and the Third Reich, and offers a timely warning against the dangerous merger of politics and the pursuit of profit.

Author Biography

Diarmuid Jeffreys, journalist and documentarian, is the author of Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug, which was nominated for the prestigious Aventis Prize for popular science books and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in East Sussex, England.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
From Perkin's Purple to Duisberg's Drugs	p. 11
The Golden Years	p. 41
The Chemists' War	p. 63
The Birth of a Colossus	p. 90
Bosch's Plan	p. 123
Striking the Bargain	p. 143
Accommodation and Collaboration	p. 173
From Long Knives to the Four-Year Plan	p. 195
Preparing for War	p. 215
War and Profit	p. 251
Buna at Auschwitz	p. 276
IG Auschwitz and the Final Solution	p. 302
Gotterdammerung	p. 337
Preparing the Case	p. 359
Trial	p. 378
Epilogue	p. 403
Postscript	p. 411
Notes	p. 413
Bibliography	p. 455
Acknowledgments	p. 465
Index	p. 469
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