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Confusing passage

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Not a single member of the management of IG Farben before 1933 supported the Nazi Party; four members, or a third, of the IG Farben supervisory board were themselves Jewish. The company ended up being the "largest single contribution" to the successful Nazi election campaign of 1933; there is also evidence of "secret contributions" to the party in 1931 and 1932.

So even though none of the managers supported the Nazi Party before 1933, the company made secret contributions to the party in 1931 and 1932? And the company made the biggest single contribution to the Nazi campaign in 1933? I don't understand this. It seems that some of the management must have supported the Nazis before 1933 if the company was contributing to the Nazi Party before the Nazis came to power. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:23, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't have the books in front of me, but reading this and the paragraph after it (and based on memory), it's because the company went through the process of getting rid of its Jews. There may also have been an appeasement factor, but I would have to re-read the sources. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:10, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

The best book for this is Peter Hayes, Industry and Ideology: I. G. Farben in the Nazi Era. If you look that up, it may clarify things. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:29, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I will try to look up that book. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:14, 4 December 2020 (UTC)