From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich

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.

Author: Peter Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/20/2004
Pages: 394
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.38w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780521782272

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2005 pg. 1270
Choice 05/01/2005 pg. 1661

About the Author
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.