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by Simpson, Christopher; Miller, Mark Crispin;


  corporate associations with, 289–310

  Dresdner Bank’s financing of, 54

  forced labor program and, 5, 12, 57, 60, 62n, 84–92, 154, 157, 190, 202, 225, 227, 241, 272, 336–337

  German subsidiaries of U.S. companies and, 96–97

  hierarchy in, 87–89

  labor vs. extermination, 75, 88, 91

  non-Jewish inmates of, 75, 76, 80, 88–89, 90

  Congress, U.S., 182, 188, 258, 268, 284

  Conrad Tack & Co., 62

  cordon sanitaire, 52, 122, 123, 128, 134

  Council on Foreign Relations, 55

  Creditanstalt-Bankverein AG, 50, 70–72

  crimes against humanity, 104, 136, 183

  definition of, 8n, 27–28, 112

  difficulty in prosecution of, 8

  as issue at Paris Conference, 15, 20

  see also international law; war crimes

  crimes against peace, 259

  definition of, 8n

  Croatia, 110, 207–208

  currency clearing, 219–222, 275

  Current History, 35

  Czech Boundary Commission, 22, 276

  Czechoslovakia, 49, 101, 106, 123, 256

  creation of, 15, 22, 276

  prisoner transfers and, 215, 231, 234, 235

  Dachau, 91, 96, 294–296

  Daimler Benz, 5, 54, 90, 272

  Darlan, Jean, 120–121, 193

  Davis, John W., 26

  Davis, Norman, 22, 44

  Dawes Committee, 45–46

  Dawes Plan credits and loan, 46–47, 49

  D-Day invasion, 211

  defectors, Red Army, 211

  Deichmann, Hans, 83–84

  “de-judification,” 71, 73, 97n

  DEMAG, 54

  Democratic party (U.S.), 134, 149, 181

  denazification, 172, 244, 245–253

  acquittal rate in, 260

  bank account blockade attempted in, 261–262

  business leaders’ immunity from, 261

  caseload in, 259–260

  Draper’s thwarting of, 248–253, 263

  JCS 1067 plan for, 195–197, 248, 249–250, 260, 262, 264

  by local antifascist groups, 247–248

  as political issue, 246–247

  Soviet-U.S. relations and, 246–247, 258, 268, 279–281

  unofficial U.S. opposition to, 262–268

  Wolff and, 242

  Denazification Policy Board, U.S., 259, 261, 262

  Denmark, 21, 49, 82

  Deutsche Bank, 47, 54, 155, 218, 327–328

  Aryanization role of, 62n, 64–65, 69, 70–72

  denazification and, 196

  Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke AG (DESAG), 96, 290

  Deutsche Raiffeisenbank AG, 49

  Devereux, Frederick, 249, 252, 264

  Dewey, Thomas, 182

  Diestel, Erich, 63

  Digest of International Law (Hackworth), 136, 137

  Dillon, Clarence Douglas, 48, 51

  Dillon, Read & Co., 47–48, 49, 248, 273, 325

  Dillon family, 48

  disabled persons, as Holocaust victims, 75

  Djemal Pasha, 30, 31, 36

  Dobkin, Marjorie Housepian, 34–35

  Dodd, William, 64

  Dodge, Cleveland, 35

  Dollmann, Eugen, 201, 236, 238–240, 241, 243

  Donovan, William, 229

  Dover Castle, 38

  Draper, William, 48, 64, 264

  as assistant secretary of the army, 271

  denazification thwarted by, 248–253, 263

  Draper family, 48

  Dresden, 92

  Dresdner Bank, 53, 54, 71, 86, 155, 218, 328–329

  Aryanization role of, 61, 62, 64–65

  denazification and, 196

  “dual containment,” 200

  Dubinsky, David, 267

  Dulles, Allen W., 12, 156, 160, 197, 228, 233, 276, 279, 346–347

  accusations against, 272–274

  Bank for International Settlements and, 219, 222

  Blessing cleared by, 223, 226n

  childhood ambition of, 20

  as CIA deputy director, 243

  as CIA director, 274

  collaborators’ amnesty program and, 189–191, 193, 199, 230

  corporate directorships of, 56

  early views on Nazis, 55–56

  in Foreign Service, 21–22, 51

  as Near East desk chief, 34, 36

  Operation Sunrise role of, 199–205

  at Paris Conference, 22

  poor quality of intelligence provided by, 218n

  retirement of, 243

  SS officers aided by, 12–13, 199, 236–239, 240–241, 243–244

  “white lists” compiled by, 217–220, 222, 226n

  and World War II separate peace tactics, 121, 122–125, 157

  Dulles, Eleanor Lansing, 219

  Dulles, John Foster, 13, 53, 97, 136, 178, 218–219, 264, 267

  accusations made against, 272–274

  character of, 20

  childhood ambition of, 20

  as international financier, 46, 48–50, 56

  Nazis tolerated by, 55

  1920s client list of, 49

  at Paris Conference, 19, 22, 44–46

  physical appearance of, 20

  Riga Axioms and, 52

  secretary of state appointment of, 274

  at Sullivan & Cromwell, 21, 45–46, 48–49, 51, 56n

  World War I government service of, 21

  and World War II separate peace tactics, 121, 122, 157

  dumdum (expanding) bullets, 18

  Dunn, James Clement, 52, 99, 130, 152, 161

  Du Pont, 52, 64

  Durbrow, Elbridge, 52, 100, 103, 114, 152

  Dushequbka, 159–160

  Dzhugashvilli, Yakov, 162n

  Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 48

  Ecer, Bohuslav, 167

  Economics Ministry, German, 70

  Eden, Anthony, 101, 118, 168, 173, 212

  anti-Semitic accusation against, 100

  Nazi war crimes prosecution opposed by, 11, 102–103, 105, 106, 125, 139, 143–144

  Eichmann, Adolf, 78

  Einsatzgruppen, 76, 77, 94, 160, 269

  Einsatzkommandos, 76, 77, 119

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 173, 193, 195

  election of 1944, U.S., 181–182

  Electrowerke AG, 49

  Engelhardt Brauerei AG, 61

  Entente, 17

  Equitable Trust Co., 50

  Erhard, Ludwig, 155

  Ernst Heinkel, 272

  ESC (Extraordinary State Commission), 125

  Essen, 91, 95

  Estonia, 129

  Europe, Central, 13, 22, 52, 200–201, 204

  European Advisory Commission, 171–172, 173

  European Commission on Human Rights, 284

  European Recovery Program, 266–268

  euthanasia program, 75

  extradition, see prisoner transfers

  Extraordinary State Commission (ESC), 125

  Exxon, 32

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 243, 276

  Federal Reserve Board, 16

  Federal Trade Commission, 253

  Fein, Helen, 10

  Ferencz, Ben, 88

  First Mortgage Bank of Saxony, 49

  First National Trust Corporation of Boston, 49

  Fite, Katherine, 182, 258

  Flick, Friedrich, 48, 54, 149, 155, 270–271

  Flick companies, 47, 62

  Flossenberg, 296–298

  Ford, Edsel, 63

  Ford Motor Company, 47, 53, 62–63, 64, 96–97, 331

  Foreign Office, British, 39, 145, 160, 168

  and denial of Holocaust reports, 100–103, 105, 115, 147

  extradition of war criminals opposed by, 209–210

  UNWCC and, 138, 139, 255, 274

  foreign policy, U.S.:

  aim of, 13

  Armenian Genocide and, 33–37 />
  conflicts in, 34, 35–36, 149

  Jewish refugees and, 11, 52, 152, 160

  and “open-door” approach in Middle East, 32

  postwar planning centers for, 171–173

  “Wise Men” as core of, 325

  see also German-U.S. relations; Soviet-U.S. relations

  Foreign Service, U.S., 21, 98

  as club, 51–52

  Roosevelt’s relationship with, 134, 172

  see also State Department, U.S.

  Forrestal, James, 48, 52, 271

  Fortune, 226, 230

  Foster, John, 19

  Fotich, Konstantin, 209n

  France, 22, 246, 256, 264

  Armenian Genocide and, 30

  Jews arrested in, 80

  Middle East split by Great Britain, U.S., and, 30, 32–33, 36, 40

  Paris Conference and, 17, 25, 38, 43, 45, 46

  Vichy government of, 80, 110, 120, 191–192

  World War I casualties suffered by, 16

  World War I reparations and, 43, 45, 46

  Frank, Hans, 142, 215

  Frankfurter, Felix, 51–52

  Frankfurter Zeitung, 62, 63

  Freudenberg, Richard, 62

  Fromkin, David, 30–31

  Funk, Walther, 67, 219, 222, 226

  GAF (General Aniline & Film Corporation), 48, 56n

  Gafencu, Gregoire, 228

  Galloway, Donald H., 240

  Garretson, Albert, 258

  General Aniline & Film Corporation (GAF), 48, 56n

  General Electric, 47, 265, 324

  General Electric Company of Sicily, 50

  General Motors, 47, 52, 64, 96

  Geneva (Red Cross) conventions (1864 and 1906), 18, 19, 24, 28, 97, 281

  genocide:

  as basic mechanism of national state, 4, 286–287

  children as victims of, 4, 6, 16, 76, 94, 170, 287

  as crime, 284

  definition of, 3

  first public attention paid to, 30

  as Nietzschian courage, 3

  political dissent and, 6, 7–8

  power and, 281

  sociology of, 6–10, 78, 79, 92, 97–98, 286–287, 313–314

  German-American Petroleum AG, 53

  “German Christian” movement, 196

  German Credit and Investment Corporation of New Jersey, 64, 248

  German External Loan, 49

  German Union of Mortgage Banks, 50

  German-U.S. relations:

  and buildup of corporate investment, 10–11, 46–47

  collaborators’ amnesty program and, 189–191

  Germany’s business elite and, 55–56

  Nazi war crimes prosecution as

  political issue in, 149–151

  Operation Sunrise negotiations and, 199, 200

  postwar reconstruction and, 171–188

  post-World War I bond loans and, 47–50

  Riga Axioms and, 52

  State Department control of, 195

  Germany, Imperial:

  Paris Conference and, 15–26, 43–46

  World War I casualties suffered by, 16

  Germany, Nazi:

  business elite in, 12, 53–58, 59–74, 149, 150–151, 153–157, 218–230

  currency restrictions in, 63

  Jewish emigration from, 60, 61, 68, 69

  Labor Ministry, 89

  Ministry for Armaments and War Production, 84–85, 86n–87n

  Ministry of Economics, 70

  rearmament program of, 63, 64, 68

  refund of U.S.-held securities sought by, 56n

  U.S. business in, 62–64

  see also Aryanization: Holocaust

  Germany, Occupied:

  borders of, 172

  Control Council Law No. 10, 258–259

  Control Council Law No. 52, 261

  postwar reconstruction of, 11, 13, 171–188

  reparations by, 172, 176, 244, 245

  “white lists” in, 217–220, 222, 226n

  see also denazification

  Germany, Weimar Republic of:

  business elite of, 53–54

  inflation in, 45

  Gestapo, 57, 61, 62n, 162n, 176, 178, 180, 186, 223, 237, 238, 247, 259, 260

  Gibson, Hugh, 52

  Giraud, Henri, 121

  Gisevius, Hans, 122, 228

  Glueck, Sheldon, 111, 113, 137, 180

  Goebbels, Joseph, 92, 94, 95, 127

  Goering, Herbert, 218

  Goering, Hermann, 68, 218

  Goetz, Carl, 218

  Goldman, Sachs, 50

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 126n

  Gousev, M., 213, 236

  Great Britain, 11, 53, 115, 128, 201, 246

  Armenian Genocide and, 30

  Middle East split by France, U.S., and, 30, 32–33, 36, 40

  Nazi Germany and, 55, 56

  Paris Conference and, 17, 18, 26, 43, 45

  public support for prosecution of Nazis in, 164

  Soviet Union mistrusted by U.S. and, 117–130

  Trieste clash and, 205–206

  U.S. investment in, 64

  World War II bombing strategy of, 92–98, 102, 313

  World War I reparations and, 43, 45, 46

  see also Foreign Office, British

  Great Depression, 50, 51, 57, 64, 66

  Greece, 80, 206, 222

  Greeks, in Turkey, 29, 33, 34, 37

  Grew, Joseph, 36, 52, 98, 99, 206, 207

  Grombach, John Valentine, 242–243

  Gross Rosen, 298–301

  Guaranty Trust Company of New York, 49, 50

  guerrilla fighting, as war crime, 19

  Gypsies (Romanis), as Holocaust victims, 75, 76, 80, 115

  Hackworth, Green, 99, 234, 342

  as author of Hull and Roosevelt’s letters to Pell, 165–166, 167, 177

  background of, 135–136

  as International Court judge, 271

  international-law philosophy of, 136–137

  Nazi war crime prosecution opposed by, 11, 106, 126, 131, 142, 146, 152, 161

  Pell’s dismissal and, 182–184, 188

  Pell’s relationship with, 135, 137, 138–139, 140, 141, 165–166, 177, 178

  Schacht defended by, 228

  UNWCC thwarted by, 256–258, 274

  Hague conventions (1899 and 1907), 18, 19, 24, 28, 38, 92, 102, 109, 281, 316–317

  Halt, Ritter von, 155

  Hamburg, 96

  Hamburg railway, 50

  Hannover, 50

  HAPAG shipping combine, 48, 53

  Harding administration, 33, 35

  Harriman, W. Averell, 48, 202, 265, 267

  Harris Forbes & Co., 49

  Harvard Law Review, 180

  Harvey, Oliver, 100

  Heinkel, Ernst, 84

  Heliowatt AG, 62n

  Henderson, Loy, 52, 100, 120–121, 134

  Henschel, Oscar, 154

  Hermann Göring Werke, 54, 86

  Herzogenbusch, 302

  Hess, Rudolf, 119–120, 121, 125

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 77, 78, 79, 80, 104

  Hickerson, John, 100, 152

  Higham, Charles, 69

  Hilberg, Raul, 60, 81

  Himmler, Heinrich, 92, 123, 124, 138, 155, 202, 223

  Himmlerkreis, 155, 223

  Hipt, Opt de, 186

  Hiroshima, 92

  Hitler, Adolf, 5, 11, 52, 61, 78, 85, 87, 92, 105, 119, 120, 121, 123, 157, 162, 177, 200, 201, 205, 223, 228, 230, 233

  Armenian Genocide as inspiration for, 10, 76, 282

  business elite and, 55, 57, 140, 153

  business elite’s loss of confidence in, 12, 81, 154

  as chancellor, 59

  death of, 197

  on extermination of Jews, 107–108

  as immune from prosecution, 11, 153

  Jews’ deportation ordered by, 80

  Hitler-Stalin pact (1939), 118, 129, 193

  Hodgson, Joseph V., 235, 256–257

 
Hoesch AG, 54

  Hoess, Rudolf, 85

  Hohenlohe, Max Egon von, 122–123, 124, 346–347

  Holland, see Netherlands

  Hollerith machine, 73

  Holocaust:

  Armenian Genocide and, 9, 10

  business elite’s knowledge of, 80–87, 157

  “bystanders” as necessary element of, 92

  comparison of other events with, 8–9

  as conspiracy, 180, 258–259

  as “final solution,” 78, 79, 108

  first official Allied protest against, 115–116

  “legalization of, 77–79, 109–110; 145, 169

  media discussion of, 195

  number of victims of, 76, 77, 80, 90, 138, 141, 157, 169

  personal and institutional

  responsibility for, 13

  resistance to, 9

  social forces and, 5

  Western attempts at denial of, 97–98, 99–116, 138, 142, 147, 152

  see also concentration camps

  homosexuals, as Holocaust victims, 76, 89

  Homze, Edward, 87n

  Hoover, Herbert, 264

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 243

  Horthy, Miklós, 23, 231, 233–235, 244

  House, Edward, 23

  Howell, Edgar, 90n

  Huelse, Ernst, 222

  Hull, Cordell, 103, 126, 138, 140, 161, 167, 177

  Hungarian Revolution (1919), 22–23, 233

  Hungary, 142, 144, 166, 169, 200, 231, 234

  hunger edema, 16, 91

  Hurst, Sir Cecil, 137n, 168–169, 177, 276

  Husmann, Max, 241

  IBM, 73n

  IG Farben, 47, 48, 55, 56n, 57, 71, 72, 73n, 149, 156, 227, 252, 269

  assets seized, 266

  concentration camp labor and, 81, 83, 84, 86, 90, 155, 157, 202, 227

  Kontinentale Öl and, 224

  IG Farben Division, General Aniline & Film Corporation (GAF), 48, 56n

  India, 128, 246

  inflation, in 1920s Germany, 45

  “Inquiry, The,” 105

  intelligence services:

  competition among, 166, 242–243

  German spies for, 82

  media and, 17

  see also specific organizations

  Inter-Allied Conference on the Punishment of War Crimes, 100

  Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 284

  International Chamber of Commerce, 265

  International Commission for Penal Reconstruction and Development, 109–110

  International Commission for War Criminals, 235

  International Court of Arbitration, 286

  International Harvester, 64

  international law:

  conspiracy and, 180, 258–259

  exploitation of, 285–286

  Hackworth’s Digest on, 136, 137

  as inapplicable to internal affairs, 25, 110–111, 152, 167, 183

  moral law as basis of, 113

  perpetrators of genocide aided by, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 97, 109–111

  weakness of, 281–282, 284

  see also genocide; war crimes

  International Military Tribunal, see Nuremberg trials

  International Nickel Company, 48

 

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