| From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich Contributor(s): Hayes, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521782279 ISBN-13: 9780521782272 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: The Degussa corporation 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. Peter Hayes 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - History | Holocaust |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2004049742 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.38" W x 9.24" (1.44 lbs) 394 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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Contributor Bio(s): Hayes, Peter: - 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. |