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factories on production and speed of replacement. Drastic secrecy
measures were imposed at the direction of the Reich War Ministry with respect
to all war production in Farben plants, including poison gas production.
18. As a result of the basis for collaboration established between
Hitler and Farben in 1932, Farben concentrated its vast resources on the
creation and equipment of the German military machine for war, invented new
production processes, and produced huge quantities of materials of war,
including synthetic rubber, synthetic gasoline, explosives, methanol, nitrates,
and other critical materials. Without them Germany could not have initiated and
waged aggressive war. In order to accomplish this gigantic task, there took
place between 1933 and 1939 a tremendous expansion of Farben's manufacturing
facilities far in excess of the needs of a peacetime economy, undertaken with
the encouragement and support of the Third Reich and financed primarily by the
government. Having played an indispensable role in preparing Germany for
aggressive wars, Farben then played an indispensable role in the waging of such
wars. Throughout the entire period, Farben contributed vast amounts annually to
the NSDAP, its various organizations, and to numerous special projects of
Hitler, Himmler, and other Nazi leaders for the purpose of maintaining the
NSDAP in power and financing its criminal activities. Farben reaped huge
profits and benefits as a result of the alliance which it established with
Hitler in 1932 and which was broken only by force of arms in May 1945. |
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B. Farben Synchronized All of its Activities With the Military
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| 19. Farben cooperated with Hitler in his earliest efforts to build
up a vast military machine in violation of the Versailles Treaty. This intimate
cooperation made it necessary for Farben to work closely with the Wehrmacht. By
2 September 1935, Farben's activities fell so exclusively in the military
domain that Farben's Central Committee of the Vorstand found it essential to
establish in Berlin a military liaison agency, the Vermittlungsstelle W, for
the sole purpose of "providing in the establishment of military economy for a
systematic cooperation within the IG and particularly for a centralized
treatment of questions of military policy and military technics." The functions
of this agency were to coordinate the work of the existing plants with the
general mobilization plan so that in case of war Farben could regulate itself
without outside interference, to handle all research problems relating to
military production, and to discuss with the military agen- [...cies]
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