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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 276
Germany’s overall ability to wage war. In The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, Joseph
Borkin wrote:
…without I.G.’s immense production facilities, its far reaching research,
varied technical experience and overall concentration of economic power,
Germany would not have been in a position to start its aggressive war in
September, 1939.
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I.G. Farben’s most significant contribution to Germany’s ability to wage war was its
production of both synthetic oil and synthetic rubber. Germany had no domestic source of either
oil or rubber and without these she could not wage war. Without gasoline and diesel, which are
both refined from oil, Germany would not have had the necessary fuel to run trains, trucks,
planes, ship, submarines and tanks. Without rubber, there would have been no wheels for
Germany’s ten’s of thousands of trucks. I.G. Farben’s ability to produce synthetic oil and rubber
was only possible because of technology transfers from the Rockefeller controlled Standard Oil
group of companies. Therefore, Standard Oil probably made the biggest single contribution to
the Nazi war machine.
Although I.G. Farben was independently developing processes for both the production of
oil from coal and the production of synthetic rubber, they were missing certain chemical
ingredients and processes. The critical chemical ingredients, processes and technological
assistance were obtained from Standard Oil through a 1927 reciprocal agreement. Only through
the assistance of Standard Oil was the production of synthetic oil and rubber made possible in
Germany. By wars end, approximately 75% of Germany’s oil was coming from synthetic oil
production.
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But while Germany had synthetic rubber, the US did not.
Three weeks after Germany invaded Poland on September 3, 1939. Standard oil and I.G.
Farben, made a deal to transfer 2000 patents from I.G. Farben to Jasco, a company owned by
Standard Oil. The patents were jointly owned by the two companies but were in I.G. Farben's
name. The deal protected the patents from being seized by the Allied nations as enemy property.
Under the arrangement Standard Oil would have an exclusive market on the Allied nations and
I.G. Farben would get the rest of the world. While Standard Oil received the patent for synthetic
rubber (Buna), they did not receive the technical “know how” for its production. I.G. Farben's
representative explained that they could not get Nazi approval because of its strategic
importance.
Frank Howard, Standard Oil's representative, needed approval to meet in Holland with a
national from Germany during a period of war. Joseph P. Kennedy, US Ambassador to London
was able to quickly arrange permission for the meeting. Final approval of the agreement was
made on October 18.
In December Howard contacted Farben and suggested that the agreement be backdated to
September 1, 1939, two days before war broke out. This arrangement made a potentially illegal
deal look valid. This was a deal to share the profits from increased sales that would result from
the war or more accurately the killing of millions of people. In spite of these efforts, the US alien
property custodian seized the patent rights as being vested in “an enemy corporation.”
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