From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich, Peter Hayes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), xx + 373 pp., 40.00
In 2003, the German chemical company Degussa found itself in the midst of a controversy over its production of an anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust memorial under construction in Berlin. For a month, work on the monument’s concrete pillars stopped as architects, politicians, and the press deba...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 528-531 |
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| Summary: | In 2003, the German chemical company Degussa found itself in the midst of a controversy over its production of an anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust memorial under construction in Berlin. For a month, work on the monument’s concrete pillars stopped as architects, politicians, and the press debated whether a company linked to the Holocaust should be involved in its memorialization. Building eventually resumed, with Degussa’s continued participation, but not before the international public learned about the company’s controversial history. That history is the subject of Peter Hayes’s excellent new study., Before Degussa’s role in the Third Reich became the subject of headlines, few Anglo-American readers knew anything about the company. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci047 |