In 1925, six of Germany`s leading chemical companies banded together in a cartel to protect their business from increasing international competition. Twenty years later the directors found themselves on trial at Nuremberg, accused of being `the magicians who made the fantasies of Mein Kampf come true`. How had one of the world`s leading companies, whose knowledge and expertise were the envy of the world, become Hitler`s creature, directly involved in the Holocaust with their experimental I. G. Monowitz plant at Auschwitz? In this brilliantly researched and compelling book, Diarmuid Jeffreys shines a bright light on I. G Farben`s Faustian pact with the Third Reich to reveal in shocking detail the story of the original military-industrial complex.