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manufacture of this product together with all the experience that the
Americans had gathered over long years.
It was, moreover, the first
time that the Americans decided to give a license on this process in a foreign
country (besides communication of unprotected secrets) and this only on our
urgent requests to Standard Oil to fulfill our wish. Contractually we could not
demand it, and we found out later that the War Department in Washington gave
its permission only after long deliberation.
(2) Conversion of
low-molecular unsaturates into usable gasoline (polymerization). Much
work in this field has been done here as well as in America. But the Americans
were the first to carry the process through on a large scale, which suggested
to us also to develop the process on a large technical scale. But above and
beyond that, plants built according to American processes are functioning in
Germany.
(3) In the field of lubricating oils as well, Germany,
through the contract with America, learned of experience which is
extraordinarily important for present day warfare. One may recall the
improvement of lubricating oils through dewaxing and deasphaltization by means
of propane, for which we first received from America the experience necessary
for large-scale application. We further received information about the
pour-point depressants, such as Paraflow. Here it is apparent how
advantageously the agreement with America turned out for Germany when one
considers that the product was found in Germany, while its important
application as pour-point depressant was first discovered by the Americans.
Finally, it should be mentioned that our knowledge of certain materials which
prevent the oxidation of unsaturated parts of motor fuels and oils, as well as
sludge formation and piston pitch formation is of American origin. Altogether
we were quite thoroughly informed on a large scale of the behavior of
lubricating oils in auto and aircraft motors, and thereby it became possible
for us to develop our synthetic lubricating materials immediately according to
practical standards, so that at the beginning of the war we were technically
fully prepared. In this connection, we obtained not only the experience of
Standard, but, through Standard, the experience of General Motors and other
large American motor companies as well.
(4) As a further remarkable
example of the advantageous effect for us of the contract between IG and
Standard Oil, the following should be mentioned: in the years 1934/1935 our
government had the greatest interest in gathering from abroad a stock of
especially valuable mineral oil products (in particular, aviation gasoline and
aviation lubricating oil), and holding it in re- […serve]
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