The Birth of IG Farben and the Support for Hitler - Dr. Matthias Rath

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Hitler - Dr. Matthias Rath

 

 

 

 

The Birth of IG Farben and the Support for Hitler

(from the book " Sword And Swastika " by Telford Taylor)

 

After the First World War, all the major chemical concerns were merged

in 1926 into a single gigantic trust - the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. -

under the leadership of Carl Duisberg and Carl Bosch. Dyestuffs,

pharmaceuticals, photographic supplies, explosives, and a myriad of

other products poured forth in ever-growing volume and variety.

 

Soon after the election of July, 1932, in which the Nazis had doubled

their vote, Heinrich Buetefisch [chief of the I.G. Farben - Leuna

plant] and Heinrich Gattineau [a Farben official who was also an SA

officer and personally known to both Rudolf Hess and Ernst Roehm].

waited upon the Fuehrer-to-be to learn whether Farben could count on

governmental support for its synthetic gasoline program in the event

the Nazis should attain power. Hitler readily agreed that Farben

should be given the necessary support to warrant expansion of the

Leuna plant.

 

After the seizure of power, Farben lost no time in following up this

auspicious introduction. Significantly, Farben's chosen channel was

not the Heeresleitung but Hermann Goering's new Air Ministry. In a

long letter to Goering's deputy Erhard Milch, Carl Krauch of Farben

outlined a " four-year plan " for the expansion of synthetic fuel

output. Milch thereupon called in Generalleutnant von Vollard

Bockelberg, Chief of the Army Ordnance Office, and it was agreed that

the Army and the Air Ministry together would sponsor the Krauch

project. A few months later Farben received a formal Reich contract

calling for the enlargement of Leuna so that production would reach

three hundred thousand tons per year by 1937, with Farben's sales

guaranteed for ten years - until June 30, 1944 - on a cost-plus basis.

 

 

1941: I.G. Farben's " friendship " with the SS helps to increase

the speed of construction of Auschwitz-Buna against the resistance " of

some little bureaucrats " .

 

A letter from Dr. Otto Ambros to the Director of I.G. Farben

Frankfurt, Fritz ter Meer

 

 

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