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Diarmuid Jeffreys – Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine - Bloomsbury, London, 2008, 1ª edição absoluta, 406 páginas.

Livro em muito bom estado, como novo. Só não digo perfeito porque a qualidade do papel não é das melhores, e páginas estão ligeiramente amarelecidas.

Com uma camada plástica protectora sobre a sobrecapa que NÃO colei ao papel/cartão, e como tal pode ser removida sem que tal danifique o livro.

Com um autocolante do preço na contracapa, sob o plástico (foto 3).

Sem assinatura de posse, notas ou sublinhados.

Com cerca de 26 Ilustrações, a p/b.

Livro sobre o conglomerado industrial alemão IG Farben (antepassado de BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, etc), empresa que antes da 2ª Grande Guerra era a maior empresa Europeia e a maior farmacêutica/química do mundo, responsável pelo fabrico do gás (usado inicialmente como pesticida) Zyklon B, usado nas câmaras de gás de Auschwitz.

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Apresentação da editora:

'An unputdownable narrative and forensically gripping investigation' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin

'Behind the guns is always the money. Diarmuid Jeffreys' perfectly detailed vivisection of the I. G. Farben companies during the Nazi era is both sensible and powerful - thus a pleasure to read - and exceptionally compelling' - Alan Furst

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In 1925, six of Germany's leading chemical companies banded together in a cartel to protect their business from increasing international competition. Twenty years later the directors found themselves on trial at Nuremberg, accused of being 'the magicians who made the fantasies of Mein Kampf come true.'

How had one of the world's leading companies, whose knowledge and expertise were the envy of the world, become Hitler's creature, directly involved in the Holocaust with their experimental I. G. Monowitz plant at Auschwitz?

In this brilliantly researched and compelling book, Diarmuid Jeffreys shines a bright light on I. G Farben's Faustian pact with the Third Reich to reveal in shocking detail the story of the original military-industrial complex.

'At last, a fresh and vibrant history - free from the taint of perpetrator sponsorship and corporate influence - that brilliantly chronicles the war monster I.G. Farben. Jeffreys's work will be consulted as a must for years to come' - Edwin Black, author of Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust

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Review da Publisher's weekly à edição USA:

British journalist Jeffreys (Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug ) presents a compelling account of the comprehensive collaboration of Germany’s major chemical conglomerate with Adolf Hitler’s genocidal dictatorship.

The fourth largest industrial concern in the world, IG Farben was a key element of German foreign policy.

Its employees were well treated. Its scientists won Nobel prizes. Its administrators created an international network controlling the production and sale of everything from plastics to camera film—and poison gas.

Jeffreys tells the story from the rise of Germany’s chemical industry in the 19th century to its support of the Nazis’ ascent to power starting in 1932.

National Socialism was good for business. The increasingly lucrative contracts came with a price: first accommodation, then collaboration, as one compromise after another enmeshed the cartel ever deeper in the Nazi system.

Eventually, from Farben’s perspective, Auschwitz was no more than a source of labor for producing the synthetic rubber and oil that kept the war machine operating.

Ignominiously dissolved in the early ’50s, IG Farben remains a monument to willful and unapologetic moral blindness