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I am grateful for this occasion to return my attention to scholarly matters that overlap with my current research but are no longer identical with it. To draw up a balance sheet of writing on the German chemical industry both before and since my own book on I.G. Farben appeared is a gratifying experience, since it entails taking stock not only of my own contributions, but also of the substantial advances in our knowledge that others have achieved. The process of looking back is seldom free of regrets, however, and mine in this instance reflect my sense at the distance of ten years that Industry and ideology may have helped close more questions than it opened. It resolved perhaps a generation of predominant concerns about the history of the German chemical industry and, I hope, in this way served the field well. But it largely left to others the task of turning our attention in new and fruitful directions.
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For a survey of the literature, see Peter Hayes, Industry and ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi era (New York, 1987), xiv–xviii, 1–5.
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For an elaboration of the effects of this preference, see Peter Hayes, “Carl Bosch and Carl Krauch: Chemistry and the political economy of Germany, 1925–1945,” Journal of economic history, 47 (1987), 353–363.
For further development of this argument, see Peter Hayes, “David Abraham’s second Collapse,” Business history review, 61 (1987), 462–468,
and Peter Hayes, “Fritz Roessler and Nazism: The observations of a German industrialist 1930–37,” Central European history, 20 (1987), 67–74.
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See Peter Hayes and Hans Deichmann, “Standort Auschwitz: Eine Kontroverse über die Entscheidungsgründe für den Bau des I.G. Farben-Werks in Auschwitz,” 1999: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte, 11 (1996), 79–101;
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and Peter Hayes, “Die I.G. Farben und die Zwangsarbeit von KZ-Häftlingen im Werk Auschwitz,” Hermann Kaienburg, ed., Konzentrationslager und deutsche Wirtschaft (Opladen, 1996), 129–148.
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Since these lines were written, Degussa has opened its archives to me, and I have begun preparing a history of the firm in the Nazi period.
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Hayes, P. (2000). I.G. Farben revisited: Industry and ideology ten years later. In: Lesch, J.E. (eds) The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century. Chemists and Chemistry, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9377-9_2
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