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.
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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.
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.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.