Industry and ideology

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"Drawing upon prodigious research, much of it in German corporate and government archives, Peter Hayes argues that the IG Farben chemicals combine, the largest corporation in Nazi Germany, proved consistently unable to influence national policy outside the narrow sphere of the firm's expertise. Indeed, as Hayes shows, the most infamous aspects of Nazi policy - the Third Reich's armaments and autarky drives during the 1930s, Germany's advance toward war, the pillaging of Europe, the exploitation of slave and conscript labor, and the persecution of the Jews - 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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Chemical industry,  Germany,  History,  Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft,  Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft - Political activity - History - 20th century,  Mineral industries,  Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei,  Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei - History,  Political activity,  Political aspects of Chemical industry,  Political aspects of Mineral industries,  Politics and government,  World War, 1939-1945,  Germany, history, 1933-1945,  Industries, germany,  Industrial policy, germany,  Germany, economic policy,  Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945,  Political aspects,  Politics

Places: Germany

Times: 1933-1945,  20th century