The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben.
Borkin, Joseph. The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben. New York: Free Press, [1978]. 250 pp. 4 unnumbered leaves of plates. Publisher's black cloth very good, in moderately worn dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * This book details the rise and fall of the German chemical conglomerate, I.G. Farben, that became an essential pillar of the Nazi war machine. It describes the "sinister bargain" struck between I.G. Farben executives and Adolf Hitler, who provided the contracts and funding necessary for Farben to dominate the chemical industry, while Farben provided the synthetic rubber, gasoline and explosives Hitler needed to wage a global war. The author also notes the extensive use of Zyklon B, a poison gas manufactured by a Farben subsidiary which murdered millions in the Holocaust.
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