IG Farben
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"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 the detailed story of the original military-industrial complex."--Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War blurb |
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Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben (German for "IG Color"), was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies—BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Weiler Ter Meer—it was seized by the Allies after World War II and divided back into its constituent companies.
IG Farben in media
Film and television
- IG Farben is the company said to be supporting German terror activities and research of uranium ores in Brazil after World War II in Alfred Hitchcock's film noir Notorious (1946).
- IG Farben is the name of the arms dealer played by Dennis Hopper in the 1987 independent film Straight to Hell.
Literature
- IG Farben plays a prominent role in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, primarily as the manufacturer of the elusive and mysterious plastic product "Imipolex G."
- The company also plays a prominent role in Philip K. Dick's alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle.
- IG Farben is the German consortium that buys Du Pont in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Hocus Pocus.
See also
- American IG
- Bernard Bernstein
- Interhandel (I.G. Chemie)
- Nuremberg Trials bibliography
- Pope John Paul II born Karol Józef Wojtyła
- IG Farben Trial
