IG Farben
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| * IG Farben is the company said to be supporting German terror activities and research of uranium ores in Brazil after World War II in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s [[film noir]] ''[[Notorious (1946 film)|Notorious]]'' (1946). | * IG Farben is the company said to be supporting German terror activities and research of uranium ores in Brazil after World War II in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s [[film noir]] ''[[Notorious (1946 film)|Notorious]]'' (1946). | ||
| - | * ''[[The Council of the Gods]]'' (1951), produced by ([[DEFA]] director [[Kurt Maetzig]]), is an East German film about IG Farben's role in World War II and the subsequent trial. | ||
| * IG Farben is the name of the arms dealer played by [[Dennis Hopper]] in the 1987 [[independent film]] ''[[Straight to Hell (film)|Straight to Hell]]''. | * IG Farben is the name of the arms dealer played by [[Dennis Hopper]] in the 1987 [[independent film]] ''[[Straight to Hell (film)|Straight to Hell]]''. | ||
| - | * In [[Foyle's War (series eight)|''Foyle's War'' series eight]], episode 1 ("[[Foyle's War (series eight)#High Castle|High Castle]]"), Foyle tours Monowitz as part of his investigation of the murder of a London University professor, who as a translator for the [[Nuremberg Trials]] becomes involved with an American industrialist who owns a petroleum company, and a German war criminal named Linz, who also turns up dead, in his cell. Linz's firm, IG Farben, had hired from the SS forced laborers incarcerated at Monowitz. | ||
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Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben (German for "IG Color"), was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies—BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agfa, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, and Chemische Fabrik vorm. Weiler Ter Meer—it was seized by the Allies after World War II and divided back into its constituent companies.
IG Farben in media
Film and television
- IG Farben is the company said to be supporting German terror activities and research of uranium ores in Brazil after World War II in Alfred Hitchcock's film noir Notorious (1946).
- IG Farben is the name of the arms dealer played by Dennis Hopper in the 1987 independent film Straight to Hell.
Literature
- IG Farben plays a prominent role in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, primarily as the manufacturer of the elusive and mysterious plastic product "Imipolex G."
- The company also plays a prominent role in Philip K. Dick's alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle.
- IG Farben is the German consortium that buys Du Pont in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Hocus Pocus.
Games
- In the Hearts of Iron series by "Paradox Interactive", IG Farben is one of several Design Companies that may be selected to provide a bonus to technology research for Germany; other options include Siemens and Krupp.
See also
- American IG
- Bernard Bernstein
- Interhandel (I.G. Chemie)
- Nuremberg Trials bibliography
- Pope John Paul II born Karol Józef Wojtyła
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