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

Hayes, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521781108 ISBN 13: 9780521781107

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

The power of big business in the Third Reich economy remains one of the most important issues of that disastrous era. Drawing on 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. This edition has a new preface that incorporates new developments and research in the field.

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"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: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521781108
• ISBN 13: 9780521781107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 450