From Cooperation to Complicity - Hayes, Peter
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A case study of the involvement of a major, now multinational, corporation in the rise and expansion of Nazism and in the crimes of the Nazi state.
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From Cooperation to Complicity is a study of the Degussa corporation, a firm which played a pivotal role in the processing of plundered precious metals in Nazi-occupied Europe and controlled the production and distribution of Zyklon B, the infamous pesticide used to gas the inmates of Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps, during the Third Reich. The author traces the extent of the…mehr

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Short description/annotation
A case study of the involvement of a major, now multinational, corporation in the rise and expansion of Nazism and in the crimes of the Nazi state.

Main description
From Cooperation to Complicity is a study of the Degussa corporation, a firm which played a pivotal role in the processing of plundered precious metals in Nazi-occupied Europe and controlled the production and distribution of Zyklon B, the infamous pesticide used to gas the inmates of Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps, during the Third Reich. The author traces the extent of the corporation's involvement in these and other Nazi war crimes, including the Aryanization of Jewish-owned property and the exploitation of forced labor, and delineates the motivations for such conduct.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction and overview; 2. The Company, the party, and the regime; 3. Aryanization; 4. Autarky and armament; 5. Precious metals for the Reich; 6. War production and spoliation; 7. Forced labor; 8. Degesch and Zyklon B; 9. War's end and aftermath.
Autorenporträt
Peter Hayes is Professor of History and German and Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2000), which won the Conference Group on Central European History's biannual book award in 1988. He is also editor of Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (1991), and four other collections. He has written more than 40 articles published in German, French, Italian, as well as English. In 1997-8, he was the Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.