Ha! Guess what I've got! A copy of Sazuly's I.G. Farben and a copy of Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, courtesy of interlibrary loan for George Mason. Summer school is over, I turned in the final exam, hopefully no more Nazis ever again. The Sazuly is a first edition, but in library binding. He was chief of financial intelligence and liason of the Finance Division of the US Military Government, I guess in Germany.
Found out that the Alien Property Custodian really had the dirt on IG Farben. It's in NARA (National Archives) - not sure if it's in College Park or D.C. Not sure why anyone really cares about Farben, except for the fact that they were forced to sell assets during the Depression, to US interests, which owned at least 25% - and, of course, Auschwitz and, maybe, Peenemunde, but not sure if that's real or just Pyncheon.
Sazuly does describe an incredible Messerschmidt plant hidden in the forest in Bavaria - half a mile long, a hundred yards wide at ground level, more than a hundred feet high. Unfinished, thanks God.
The thing I missed the most about the class I took (taught by someone who works at the Holocaust museum) was making an effort to come to grips with the Third Reich's use of slave labor, and also making an effort to explain what happened in the Soviet Union. But I guess it's too much to talk about all at once. |
