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Description of  Crime and Punishment of IG Farben

0233971262 pdf My first encounter with I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft took place in the early summer of 1934. I had just been hired by the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate the Munitions Industry as an investigator-researcher. By luck, my immediate supervisor was H. C. Engelbrecht, whose book Merchants of Death had been an important factor influencing Senator Gerald P. Nye to press for the investigation. To ease me into the job, Engelbrecht handed me an agreement between the Standard Oil Company (NJ.) and I.G. Farben. My assignment was to summarize this involved contract so that it would be intelligible to the senators on the Committee. I had never heard of I.G. Farben before. But for the next forty-four years, it was my Moby Dick.