IG Farben - Hell's cartel
Dave U. Random
Machine" by Diarmuid Jeffreys (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/HellsC )
Seattle Times
The cover of "Hell's Cartel" is a composite photo showing a
large, unidentified man passing cash to Adolf Hitler. It
suggests that Der F�hrer was doing the work of big
business. The story told by historian Diarmuid Jeffreys is
mainly the opposite: of business that came to do the work
of Hitler.
The German chemical industry was born 75 years before
Hitler's National Socialist party, and far away from the
arenas of politics and war. The chemical industry had begun
with dyes for dresses. By the early 1900s, it had followed
the science into pharmaceuticals. One was Novocain. Another
was aspirin, the subject of Jeffreys' 2004 book, "Aspirin:
The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug."
It was World War I, Jeffreys writes, that brought the
German chemical companies "into a mutually dependent
relationship with the state."...
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