The Crime and punishment of I.G. Farben : [the unholy alliance between hitler and the great chemical combine

The Crime and Pun­ish­ment of I.G. Far­ben charts the stel­lar rise of Germany’s chem­i­cal and dyestuff indus­tries, as well as those of the Ruhr and Rhineland’s min­ing and steel, both spawned as global eco­nomic pow­er­houses by pre­ex­ist­ing inter­na­tional trade restric­tions and the Ger­man hord­ing of patent rights. Cov­ers also the Reich’s 1918 mil­i­tary defeat; the High Command’s long-term vision; the flow­er­ing and with­er­ing of Carl Bosch’s sci­en­tific and man­u­fac­tur­ing genius; the con­sol­i­da­tion of the bank­ing, heavy and chem­i­cal indus­tries (not to men­tion Ger­man soci­ety) com­ing to fruition under Hitler and Nazi policy. Also included are astound­ing descrip­tions of the slave labor and mass mur­der in Auschwitz and else­where, the admin­is­tra­tion of which was shared by I.G. Farben’s top man­age­ment and Himmler’s S.S. Hav­ing become famil­iar with the spe­cial rela­tion­ship between I.G. Far­ben and Stan­dard Oil of Jer­sey as inves­ti­ga­tor for a Sen­ate Spe­cial Com­mit­tee, author Joseph Borkin later headed the Patent and Car­tel Sec­tion of the Jus­tice Department’s Antitrust Divi­sion, co-authoring Germany’s Mas­ter Plan in 1943. “After the war, when I read the tran­script of the trial of the I.G. war crim­i­nals at Nurem­berg, I knew that some­day I would write the present book.” If it were not for its thorough documentation this would read like a fictional account of international intrigue and high finance. The story of the rise of he I.G. Farben-Nazi empire, its fall in World War II, and then its return to power, thanks to the intervention of certain highly placed Americans, their role revealed for the first time, is a fascinating one. The lesson of what the intrigue meant to humanity is a terrible one- ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. THE UNHOLLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN HITLER AND THE GREAT CHEMICAL COMBINE WRITTEN BY JOSEPH BORKIN. The story of the huge chemical corporation, I.O. Farben: its relations with Hitler and the Third Reich, its takeover of the chemical industries of Europe in the wake of German conquest, its use of slave labor in its own Anschwitz-like concentration camp and its ultimate exposure at the Nuremberg trials. I.G. Farben worked with Hitler to create the largest private oil and rubber production facility in the world, "I.G. Auschwitz."