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

by Jeffreys, Diarmuid

• ISBN13: 9780805091434
• ISBN10: 0805091432
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-05
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

At Its Peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. The cartel dominated crucial industries ranging from synthetic rubber to pharmaceuticals; its renowned scientists pioneered aspirin and won numerous Nobel prizes. Yet just twenty years after Farben's creation, its directors were on trial at Nuremberg, facing charges of mass murder and the exploitation of slave labor. They were, the prosecutor said, "the magicians who made the fantasies of Mein Kampf come true."

Author Biography

Diarmuid Jeffreys 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. A journalist and documentarian, 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
Götterämmerung	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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