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

Door Diarmuid Jeffreys

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#375272-XC42
Titel	Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Auteur	Jeffreys, Diarmuid
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Bloomsbury Publishing
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0747580928
ISBN13	9780747580928
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red boards, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 Nob... (Lees verder)el 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.
Pagina's	403
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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