HC Deb 21 February 1946 vol 419 cc304-6W
Captain Marples

asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what percentage of I.G. Farben's industrial plants and administrative structures had been destroyed or dismantled up to the latest available date; and what percentage of its cartels ties in other countries has been wiped out.

Mr. J. Hynd:

I regret that it is not practicable to express as a percentage of its prewar or wartime capacity the extent to which the vast I.G. Farben Industrial Nexus has been disorganised, dismantled or destroyed. It can, however, be said that I.G. Farbenindustrie has ceased to exist as an organised unit. No part of it may operate except under licence of the control authorities in accordance with the industrial policy for Germany of the occupying Powers. No cartel ties now operate between I.G. Farben and firms outside Germany