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What is wrong here?[edit]

I read a lot about what happened in 1944 bit nearly nothing about what DuBois did in Nuremberg in the IG Farben case. This is not very good. --13Peewit (talk) 19:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Devil's Chemists Book[edit]

As a prosecutor in the I. G. Farben case he wrote a book (The Devil's Chemists) on the case, which was not very successful from the prosecutors point of view. Some contemporary reviews of his book state the following:

• "An account of the ubiquitous role of I. G. Farbenindustrie in arming and supporting the Nazi government, somewhat dramatically examined by the unsuccessful prosecutor of the I. G. Farben case during the Nuremberg trials." (American Political Science Review, Vo. 47, Issue 1)

• "Thus it was that the men who sat in judgment in cases of unbelievable complexity and of maximum importance to the implementation of international law were members of state supreme courts, former judges, practicing members of the bar in their home towns. Few of them had the experience requisite to the task for which they had volunteered. The tribunal in the case of the directors of the I. G. Farben chemical trust is a prime example. Because of the inability of the majority to differentiate between legitimate big business and a gigantic corporate octopus wholly lacking in moral standards, yet so powerful that it devoured Governments as well as industrial rivals, all the defendants in the Farben case are now at liberty, pursuing their former occupations." (The New York Times, Nov. 9, 1952)

• "Now the chief prosecutor at their trial has written a report of the case that offers an astonishing picture of the deadly operations during the Nazi era of this greatest of all German cartels. The relevant volumes of the official Nuremberg proceedings have yet to appear, and Mr. DuBois’ revelations are consequently both new and shocking; unfortunately, they are something less than objective."

... The judges of American Military Tribunal VI saw fit to deal lightly with these men; the highest sentence meted out was eight years, and Dr. Hoerlein, among others, went scot-free. Here one can only agree with the author that injustice was done at Nuremberg.

"... German rearmament and Jewish slave labor alike, contrary to Mr. DuBois’ belief, were the result of the domination of business by the state, and not of the state by business. It is true that business is business, but it is more to the point, in the case of Germany, that absolute power corrupts absolutely." (R. F. Tannenbau, Commentary, Jan. 1953) 138.246.3.168 (talk) 19:38, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]