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

Jeffreys, Diarmuid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747580928 ISBN 13: 9780747580928

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

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'At last, a fresh and vibrant history - free from the taint of perpetrator sponsorship and corporate influence - that brilliantly chronicles the war monster I.G. Farben. Jeffreys's work will be consulted as a must for years to come.'
-- Edwin Black, author of Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust

'An unputdownable narrative and forensically gripping investigation into how energetic German corporate executives became the degenerate monsters who made the Holocaust technically possible.' -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin

'Behind the guns is always the money. Diarmuid Jeffreys' perfectly detailed vivisection of the I. G. Farben companies during the Nazi era is both sensible and powerful - thus a pleasure to read - and exceptionally compelling.' -- Alan Furst, author of The Polish Officer and The Foreign Correspondent

Synopsis:

In 1925, in the aftermath of World War One and the vengeful Treaty of Versailles, six of Germany's leading chemical companies banded together in a cartel to protect their business from increasing international competition. The merger succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and within a few years I. G. Farben, as the cartel was named, dominated the lucrative global chemical business. Yet twenty years later the directors found themselves on trial in the same Nuremberg courtroom that had decided the fates of the surviving leaders of the Third Reich. They were accused, in the words of the prosecutor, Telford Taylor, of being: 'the men who made war possible the magicians who made the fantasies of Mein Kampf come true.'How had one of the world's leading companies, whose scientists had won Nobel prizes, pioneered aspirin and a host of other essential drugs, and whose knowledge and expertise were the envy of the world, fallen from the heights of such success to become Hitler's creature, directly involved in the Holocaust with their experimental I. G. Monowitz plant at Auschwitz? In this brilliantly researched and compelling book, Diarmuid Jeffreys shines a bright light on I. G.Farben's Faustian pact with the Third Reich to reveal the detailed story of the original military-industrial complex.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747580928
• ISBN 13: 9780747580928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416