Industry and ideology
Subtitle: IG Farben in the Nazi era
By: Peter Hayes.
Edition: New ed., 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- History; Chemical industry -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
Description: "Drawing upon prodigious research, much of it in German corporate and government archives, Peter Hayes argues that the IG Farben chemicals combine, the largest corporation in Nazi Germany, proved consistently unable to influence national policy outside the narrow sphere of the firm's expertise.

Indeed, as Hayes shows, the most infamous aspects of Nazi policy - the Third Reich's armaments and autarky drives during the 1930s, Germany's advance toward war, the pillaging of Europe, the exploitation of slave and conscript labor, and the persecution of the Jews - occurred despite IG Farben's advocacy of alternative courses of action. Nonetheless, Farben grew rich under the Nazi regime and was directly involved in some of its greatest crimes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.