Abstract
THE astonishing success of the German armed forces in the first campaigns of the war indicated that German science and industry might well have made great strides during the period 1934 to the beginning of the war in 1939. Throughout these years, and, of coarse, during the war, secrecy was imposed by the Reich on production and stocks of the principal commodities and on the expansion of industry generally—especially of those industries vital to the prosecution of war. As early as 1936, the inspection of coal distillation plants and of destructive hydrogenation and water-gas synthetic oil plants (the latter then only in the large-scale pilot plant stage, although the first commercial unit at Oberhausen-Holten was in construction) could be made only prefunctorily by the author, in spite of the fact that he had introductions to the leaders in this field from the officers of a German subsidiary of his company, the Houdry Process Corp.* ...
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