Industry and Ideology: I. G. Farben in the Nazi Era - Hardcover

Hayes, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521329485 ISBN 13: 9780521329484

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Peter Hayes argues that IG Farben Chemicals, the largest corporation in Nazi Germany, proved consistently unable to influence national policy outside the firm's sphere of expertise. Nonetheless, the corporation grew rich under the Nazi regime and was directly involved in some of its greatest crimes.

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Book Description:

The power of big business in the Third Reich economy remains one of the most important issues of that disastrous era. Drawing upon prodigious research in German corporate and government archives, Peter Hayes argues that the IG Farben chemicals combine, Nazi Germany's largest corporation, proved unable to influence national policy outside the firm's sphere of expertise. Indeed, the most infamous aspects of Nazi policy 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.

Review:

"Hayes's long-awaited, splendid study of Germany's chemical giant in the Nazi era is of critical importance and puts the study of big business under the Nazis on a new, solid foundation in the English-speaking world." Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0521329485
• ISBN 13: 9780521329484
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 439