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Decartelization-dissolution of agreements to control prices, markets, etc.-was not going along satisfactorily. Furthermore, deconcentration-the actual sale of assets held or controlled by the cartels-had got nowhere, partly because of Allied political differences. The committee recommended deconcentration of the plants of the I.G. Farben empire, a mainstay of the Nazi war machine. General Lucius Clay, then Military Governor of Germany, retorted that any further break-up of German enterprises "would be a political and not a security measure." His staff, which got much of the blame from the committee, was even sharper. Sneered his economic adviser Lawrence...
First Sale. Last week in Frankfurt the low comedy was taken seriously. On the block went the first Farben unit, the Kalle plant at Wiesbaden, reportedly valued at $6,000,000. It employs 2,200 and produces Cellophane, photographic papers and chemicals. The Military Government wanted to offer some 80% of the stock for sale to Germans, while 20% would be set aside for the foreigners who already owned an interest in Farben. The Military Government also announced that part of another great industrial empire, the Robert Bosch electrical equipment combine, was to be sold. It looked as if "something...
...Flavor of Greenwich. When Juliana was 26, she met Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, a charming young man-about-Europe who worked for I. G. Farben in Paris. Declared Wilhelmina: "This is not the marriage of The Netherlands to Germany [but] the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy of her love." The story goes that when a German diplomat suggested how sensible it would be if The Netherlands indeed joined Germany, Juliana remarked: "Oh, I think Mama is too old to rule such a large country as Germany...
...blast that lifted Heuszler and threw him against a wall last week destroyed 18 buildings in the 8-sq. mile factory of Germany's biggest chemical works, the I.G. Farben plant at Ludwigshafen in the French Zone, producers of nitrogen fertilizer, varnishes and dyes. At least 180 were killed, 2,500 injured, and 70 were still missing this week...
...times. While the camera seems to have focused with a morbid fascination on those areas of Frankfort and later Berlin that are complete devastation, it also picks up along the way the petty black marketeers of the railroad stations, an "Off Limits" nightclub, and the I. G. Farben building--untouched by Allied bombs, which the narrator carefully explains spared the building for later use as a headquarters...