Jewish Holocaust Auschwitz Extermination RARE 1942 doc Construction Contract BUNA Wroks AUschwitz III Original Start Price USD 5,000.00 Current Price USD 5,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, October 08, 2008 End Time Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Location Asheville, North Carolina See more about 'Jewish Holocaust Auschwitz Extermination RARE 1942 doc' Description We Have 27 Years of Rare Bookstore Ownership and Cataloguing Experience in Major Metropolitan Areas as well as 10 years of experience with our ecom site Auschwitz III Construction Contract The Contract between IG Farben and the Confederazione Fascista degli Industriali for Construction of the Buna Works at Auschwitz III, as well as construction at Heydebrek and Blechhammer. 1942 Authors:  “Raggruppamento Germania” Title: Contratto per l’escusione di lavori di construzione in partecipazione con imprese germaniche, nei cantieri di Heydebrek, Blechhammer e Auscwitz.  Year: 1942 Size:  12 x 8 ¼ inches, 29 pp, with pp 1-5 printed front and back, and 16-29 printed on one side of the sheet only. Binding:  paper covers.  Contratto per l’escusione di lavori di construzione in partecipazione con imprese germaniche, nei cantieri di Heydebrek, Blechhammer e Auscwitz.  Tipografia del Gianicolo, Roma.  1942.  Confederzione Fascista degli Industriali, Federazione Nazionale Fascista Raggruppamento Germania   30.5 x 21 cm, 29pp.  Formerly in the “Pamphlet Collection” from the Library of Congress (which received the publication 12 July 1945).  Published contract detailing labor expectations, needs and regulations from both the German and laboring Italian sides for the construction of these three concentration and slave labor camps in 1942.   Subjects of interest in this document include salaries, housing, vacations, healthcare  and insurance, as well as the application of German laws to the workers, qualifications, and classification of occupations.  Pp 3-4 lists the firms and engineers taking part in this agreement.   This is also probably the most awful thing I own.  Its like looking at those blueprints for the crematoria and the barracks--so precise, swimming in their blue pool, these concise, sure, white lines; designs for one of the worst things built in the 20th century--just drawings, lines on a long sheet of paper, for building something.  Completely removed from the breathing world, just cold logical constructions for someone else's end.  That's the feeling I get from handling this thing--the Italians and Germans figuring out where to put the thousands of workers, making sure that they get paid, providing for some sort of maintenance for the workers' health, salaries, benefits, work schedules, breaks, vacations, incentives, mailing and the post, and so on.  All of the bits of the most mundane things that go into a large construction projects, like building a highrise, or a tunnel, or a highway, or a bridge to hell.  This contract could've been for just about anything at all.  But it isn't.  Its for building a part of Auschwitz when anyone with any sense whatsoever knew what was already going on there. Of the many terrible things in this document I was really bothered to see Heydebrek, Blechhammer and Auschwitz abbreviated at the top of some of these pages.    This is just so wrong. Wrong on every level, being an attribute of the nothingness, of the emptiness, of this document.  It is a simple, basic document on one of the least simple and basic things of the 20th century.  The contract detailed labor expectations, needs and regulations from both the German and laboring Italian sides for the construction of these three concentration and slave labor camps in 1942.   Subjects of interest in this document include salaries, housing, vacations, health care and insurance, as well as the application of German laws to the workers, qualifications, and classification of occupations. People who signed this document (in the text, and thus seemingly responsible)  on this agreement of 2 March 1942  which provided 8,636 Italian laborers for this construction include: 1)      for IG Farbenindustrie AG, Heydebreck, Heydebreck OS Adolf Mueller and (Hans) Deichmann 2)      for Oberschleische Hydrierwerke AG, Blechhammer, Kreis-Consei                    Schlick 3)      for IG Farbenindustrie AG Auschwitz, Auschwitz OS Adolf Mueller and (Hans) DeichmannSigners representing Italian interests include:             Aurelio Aureli             Giacomo Milella   Hans Deichmann served as (senior) legal representative for IG Farbenindustrie in Rome and Milan from 1942 to 1945 and in 1942 was responsible for recruiting Italian workers for construction in the above-named concentration camps.   No copies found in OCLC. No copies located in National Holocaust Museum library.   Notes: --Blechhammer was a satellite camp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz) --Auschwitz III, also called Buna or Monowitz, was established in nearby Monowice to provide forced laborers for the Buna synthetic rubber works. The German conglomerate I.G. Farben established a factory in order to take advantage of cheap concentration camp labor and the nearby Silesian coalfields. It invested more than 700 million Reichsmarks (about 1.4 million U.S. dollars in 1942 terms) in Auschwitz III.   The following is from the Nuremberg Trial proceedings (Vol  VIII, pg 749,  Nuremberg War Crime Tribunals).:   On Italian labor being used at Nazi Concentration camps:   Q. Did you go to ter Meer to get Italian workers — I am thinking of a prosecution exhibit, the one which was shown to ter Meer on cross examination.* A. I was told at the time by an official source that Italian industry, after the collapse, would no longer produce because there was no coal, no current, or something. I was also told that since the Italian State obtained goods from Germany — buna, for example — the Italian State would be willing to enter into an agreement with Germany to make labor available, as was always the case from Italy. I said to him: “In case that is so” — neither ter Meer nor I knew whether that really would be the case — I said, “help the people at Auschwitz; help them to get workers if now” — I believe this was in 1944 — “the plants gradually go into operation.” For in these plants we wanted to have skilled workers — as I said yesterday, it is very important whether or not the man in charge has knowledge of the work he is doing.   Vol  VIII, pg 749,  Nuremberg War Crime Tribunals.  Fritz ter Meer served on the IG Farben board of directors from 1926 to 1945 and was the head officer directing the operations of the IG Farben factory at Auschwitz. The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal sentenced him to seven years in prison. He was released after serving only four years. Not long after, in 1956, Ter Meer was elevated to the chairman of the supervisory board at BAYER, a position he held for seven years. His grave in Krefeld has a meter-high wreath on it - donated by BAYER in recognition of his services. The Directors of American I.G. at 1930: American I,G. Director Citizenship Other Major Associations Carl BOSCH  German  FORD MOTOR CO. A-G Edsel B. FORD U.S.  FORD MOTOR CO. DETROIT Max ILGNER  German Directed I.G. FARBEN N.W.7  (INTELLIGENCE) office. Guilty at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. F. Ter MEER German Guilty at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials H.A. METZ  U.S.  Director of I.G. Farben Germany and BANK OF MANHATTAN (U.S.) C.E. MITCHELL U.S. Director of FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF N.Y. and NATIONAL CITY BANK Herman SCHMITZ German On boards of I.G. Farben (President) (Germany) Deutsche Bank (Germany) and BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS. Guilty at Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Walter TEAGLE  U.S. Director FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK and STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY   W.H. yon RATH  Naturalized Director of GERMAN GENERAL U.S. ELECTRIC (A.E.G.)  Paul M. WARBURG U.S. First member of the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK and BANK OF MANHATTAN W.E. WEISS U.S. Sterling Products Source: Moody's Manual of Investments; 1930, p. 2149. Note: Walter DUISBERG (U.S.), W. GRIEF (U.S.), and Adolf KUTTROFF (U.S.) were also Directors of American I.G. Farben at this period. “Directors of American I.G. were not only prominent in Wall Street and American industry but more significantly were drawn from a few highly influential institutions:” “The remaining four members of the American I.G. board were prominent American citizens and members of the Wall Street financial elite: C.E. Mitchell, chairman of National City Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Edsel B. Ford, president of Ford Motor Company; W.C. Teagle, another director of Standard Oil of New Jersey; and, Paul Warburg, first member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and chairman of the Bank of Manhattan Company.”{ “Directors of American I.G. were not only prominent in Wall Street and American industry but more significantly were drawn from a few highly influential institutions. (See chart above.)” “Between 1929 and 1939 there were changes in the make-up of the board of American I.G. The number of directors varied from time to time, although a majority always had I.G. backgrounds or connections, and the board never had less than four American directors. In 1939 — presumably looking ahead to World War II — an effort was made to give the board a more American complexion, but despite the resignation of Hermann Schmitz, Carl Bosch, and Walter Duisberg, and the appointment of seven new directors, seven members still belonged to the I.G. group. This I.G. predominance increased during 1940 and 1941 as American directors, including Edsel Ford, realized the political unhealthiness of I.G. and resigned.” Condition:  GOOD  descent copy.. The paper is becoming brittle to the point where if you dog-ear a page the fold might actually crack.  Also I’d rather not scan the entire document on a flat bed scanner as the binding might break.  This doesn’t mean that you can’t open it and read it, not so by any means—you just need to be mindful and cautious with the item since it was so ephemerally-printed to begin with.  The cover is almost nearly detached but will stay on if you're careful.  There is also an old horizontal fold at the middle of the pamphlet.     I’d say in a 1-10scale, with 1 being “trash” and 10 being “new”, that this was a solid “5”.  I think it is a perfectly acceptable copy of a document that seems not to be found elsewhere.  Provenance:  ex-library, U.S. Library of Congress.  This pamphlet is part of a very large collection of 90,000 pamphlets that we bought of the U.S. Library of Congress.  Known simply as the “Pamphlet Collection” (as many of the pamphlets are identified in a distinctive and tiny 3mm rubber stamp).  There is a “Surplus Duplicate” from the LC on the title page.  There are NO COPIES  of this work located in the massive, 70+ million-item librarians’ cataloguing tool, OCLC/WorldCat (First Search). Nor are there any copies so far as we can determine in the research libraries of any of the leading Holocaust research centers.   About OCLC/WorldCat and its use for determining relative scarcity of titles: This is a cataloguing tool used by librarians around the world.  It turns out to be a very useful bibliographical tool as well.  It can also be used to determine the relative scarcity of objects.  For example, it is common for a common book to be in many hundreds (and even thousands) of libraries.  As books and pamphlets become scarcer their numbers also dwindle in the OCLC holdings.  We consider holdings of less than 20 for a title to be “uncommon”; holdings of a title with less than 10 libraries is becoming “rare”.   The best of all possible worlds for this system is to find zero records thus earning the portentous designation “Not found in OCLC”.  Over 50 million cataloging records created by libraries around the world, with a new record added every 15 seconds. 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