Syllabus

[Michael Bailey]

also -
Plasticman
The Flash



the IG Farben thread is important, if you ask me, because it explains
a lot of what otherwise might seem like gratuitous cynicism in the
characters and narrator.

The notion that the enemy against whom one is asked to expend the last
full measure of devotion would probably not be in power at all without
the concerted efforts of the corporate pillars of capitalism makes it
hard to sustain earnestness


(from Sutton, just a smidgen of the material that's there)

In brief, 45 percent of the funds for the 1933 election [of Hitler]
came from I.G. Farben. If we look at the directors of American I.G.
Farben — the U.S. subsidiary of I.G. Farben — we get close to the
roots of Wall Street involvement with Hitler. The board of American
I.G. Farben at this time contained some of the most prestigious names
among American industrialists: Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor
Company, C.E. Mitchell of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and
Walter Teagle, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.

Paul M. Warburg, first director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York and chairman of the Bank of Manhattan, was a Farben director and
in Germany his brother Max Warburg was also a director of I.G, Farben.
H. A. Metz of I.G. Farben was also a director of the Warburg's Bank of
Manhattan. Finally, Carl Bosch of American I.G. Farben was also a
director of Ford Motor Company A-G in Germany.

Three board members of American I.G. Farben were found guilty at the
Nuremburg War Crimes Trials: Max Ilgner, F. Ter Meer, and Hermann
Schmitz. As we have noted, the American board members — Edsel Ford, C.
E. Mitchell, Walter Teagle, and Paul Warburg — were not placed on
trial at Nuremburg, and so far as the records are concerned, it
appears that they were not even questioned about their knowledge of
the 1933 Hitler fund.