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  IG Farben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IG Farben built a factory for producing synthetic oil and rubber (from coal) in Auschwitz, which was the beginning of SS activity and camps in this location during the Holocaust.
Of the 24 directors of IG Farben indicted in the so-called IG Farben Trial (1947-1948)c before a U.S. military tribunal at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 13 were sentenced to prison terms between 1½ and eight years.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IG_Farben   (759 words)

  
 IG Farben Trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The IG Farben Trial was the second of three trials of leading industrialists of Nazi Germany for their conduct during the Nazi regime.
IG Farben also developed processes for synthesizing gasoline and rubber from coal, and thereby contributed much to Germany's ability to wage a war despite having been cut off from all major oil fields.
Only in the case of Auschwitz, where IG Farben had constructed a plant next to the concentration camp with the clear intent to utilize inmates as slave workers, did the tribunal consider the evidence sufficient to prove that IG Farben acted on their own initiative.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IG_Farben_Trial   (1011 words)

  
 Armageddon Online Forums - IG Farben's Nazi Headachs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
IG Farben is the union of Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and a few other smaller German chemical companies.
IG Farben maintained contact with the SS through the so-called `Friendship circle for the leaders of the SS'.
IG Farben board member, Fritz ter Meer became the chairman of the board for BAYER in 1956.
www.armageddononline.org /forums/showthread.php?t=2998   (1282 words)

  
 Auschwitz:60 Year Anniversary-- the Role of IG Farben-Bayer
IG Farben was the most powerful German corporate cartel in the first half of the 20th century and the single largest profiteer from the Second World War.
It was no coincidence that IG Farben built their giant new plant in Auschwitz, since the workforce they used (altogether about 300.000 people) was practically for free.
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.
www.ahrp.org /infomail/05/01/27a.php   (2581 words)

  
 Bayer, Hitler, Saddam Hussein Leader International Terroriste
I.G. built and operated a massive chemical plant at Auschwitz with slave labour; the I.G. facilities at Auschwitz were so enormous that they used more electricity than the entire city of Berlin.
IG Farben was split up after the war into BASF AG, Bayer AG and Hoechst AG, but a shell company, IG Farben in Liquidation, was left in existence to handle asset claims.
IG Farben avec branches Et les rapports(connexions) ont dans le monde entier fait des bénéfices des deux côtés de le Front.
www.conspiration.cc /sujets/politique/bayer_hitler_hussein_terro.htm   (7607 words)

  
 IG Farben To Make Slave Labor Fund
Volker Pollehn, the official in charge of dissolving IG Farben, said the fund would be started with an initial $228,000 in the coming weeks.
The government has criticized IG Farben's decision not to participate in the $4.5 billion government-business fund to compensate those forced to work for Nazi firms and in slave labor camps.
IG Farben had an estimated 83,000 slave workers by 1944 at the Auschwitz complex in what is now Poland.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20000823/aponline220934_000.htm   (384 words)

  
 Bayer, Hoechst AG, IG Farben and Nazi Germany
I.G. Farben, the corporation that provided the German army with the gas Zyklon B used to exterminate over 6,000,000 Jews was found guilty of war crimes.
IG played an important role in adapting the industries of those countries to the purposes of the Nazi war machine.
It was manufactured by a firm called Degesch which was largely owned by IG Farben, and it had been brought to Auschwitz in the summer of 1941 as a vermin-killer and disinfectant.
www.thegreatboycott.net /nazi.html   (3049 words)

  
 IG Farben to file for bankruptcy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
IG Farben, the former German chemical giant that used thousands of slave labourers at Auschwitz and part-owned the producer of poison gas for the Nazi death camps, announced that it would file for bankruptcy.
IG Farben's war-related factories included a notorious synthetic rubber plant at Auschwitz where 30,000 people worked until they died or were deemed unfit for work and sent to the gas chambers.
IG Farben's successor companies in Germany - BASF, Bayer and Hoechst - were all founder members of that fund, but IG Farben instead set up its own 500,000-mark ($A417,000) fund in July of that year.
www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/11/1068329520914.html   (286 words)

  
 Bayer and the UN Global Compact
IG Farben exploited several hundred thousand slave workers to build up their plant in Auschwitz, took over companies all over Europe and used human guinea pigs for pharmaceutical research.
IG Farben's subsidiary Degesch manufactured Zyklon B, the poison gas used in the gas chambers.
IG Farben's managers were convicted as war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
ngin.tripod.com /200702b.htm   (2625 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.04.06 - Bayer = IG Farben Nazi chemical conglomerate
IG Farben began testing pharmacuetical products on prisoners, many of whom were forced to wear fl triangles and labeled as "asocials".
IG Farben has been heavily criticised for not paying any compensation to former Nazi slave labourers after hundreds of Germany's leading industrial companies contributed to a 10bn Deutschmark fund this year.
I.G. Farben began as a cartel (I.G. stands for "interessen gemeinschaft"- "community of interest", "Farben" means "dyestuffs") of the six major companies in the German dyestuff/chemical industry- Bayer, BASF, Agfa, Hoechst, Cassella and one other that slips my mind.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/04/285182.shtml   (1006 words)

  
 No More Fake News Archives
These experiments were part and parcel of IG Farben, the evil octopus that ruled the world of chemical companies at the outbreak of WW2.
Farben essentially believed that, given enough time, it could synthesize any chemical substance---and this motive melded perfectly with the Nazi dream of creating a new race of humans on the ashes of depopulation.
Hans Frankenthal, former slave worker in IG Farben´s plant in Auschwitz and board member of the Jewish Community: ”I was terrified when I learned from this offence against Jewish belief.
www.nomorefakenews.com /archives/archiveview.php?key=2425   (2697 words)

  
 I.G. Farben by Richard Sasuly - German Drug Cartels, International Drugs
Yet all the while, one master combine, IG Farben, the German chemical trust, representative of the tight inner circle of German monopoly, operated behind the scenes to give a constant drive and purpose to the Nazi juggernaut.
The case of IG Farben cannot yet be laid away in the historian's file.
IG Farben and the kind of cartel practice of which it was the most dynamic specimen are still very much with us.
www.ftrbooks.net /psych/drug_industry/ig_farben.htm   (804 words)

  
 CHAPTER TWO: The Empire of I.G. Farben
On the eve of World War II the German chemical complex of I.G. Farben was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, with extraordinary political and economic power and influence within the Hitlerian Nazi state.
Farben's ultimate control of the German war economy, acquired during the 1920s and 1930s with Wall Street assistance, can best be assessed by examining the percentage of German war material output produced by Farben plants in 1945.
I.G. Farben was pre-war Germany's largest earner of foreign exchange, and this foreign exchange enabled Germany to purchase strategic raw materials, military equipment, and technical processes, and to finance its overseas programs of espionage, propaganda, and varied military and political activities preceding World War II.
reformed-theology.org /html/books/wall_street/chapter_02.htm   (4375 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Former Zyklon-B maker goes bust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
IG Farben employed thousands of slave labourers at the Auschwitz death camp and its Zyklon-B was used to murder millions of Jews and other prisoners.
IG Farben manufactured the poisonous Zyklon-B chemical which was used in the gas chambers.
But more controversially, IG Farben refused to join a national compensation fund that was set up in 2001 to pay others who had suffered.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3257403.stm   (275 words)

  
 Chemnitz
The IG Farben was single largest donor to the election campaign of Adolph Hitler.
The main project was IG Auschwitz, a 100% subsidiary of IG Farben, the largest industrial complex of the world for manufacturing synthetic gasoline and rubber for the conquest of Europe.
Today each of the three daughters of the IG Farben is 20 times as big as the IG Farben mother was at its height in 1944, the last year of the Second World War.
www.drrathresearch.org /about_drrath/chemnitz11.html   (4533 words)

  
 Forbes.com: Nazi gas firm IG Farben to file for insolvency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
IG Farben IL has been in liquidation since 1952 and its stock is still traded on the Frankfurt stock exchange to the dismay of critics who have called it a "blood stock".
IG Farben's 500 properties were valued at around 38 million euros ($43.63 million) and the firm had debts totalling some 28 million euros.
The former slave labourers were hoping IG Farben's remaining assets could be liquidated and the proceeds paid out as compensation for their wartime treatment.
www.forbes.com /home_europe/newswire/2003/11/10/rtr1141571.html   (619 words)

  
 Cannabis Culture Forums: Explaining War & answering Abby: Bayer 101   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The pharmaceutical departments of the IG Farben cartel used the victims of the concentration camps in their own way: thousands of them died during human experiments such as the testing of new and unknown vaccines.
IG Farben continued to grow during the inter-war period as one of the most powerful chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world.
IG Farben as the leading chemical company in Nazi Germany took over chemical plants across Nazi occupied Europe, used slave-labour in their factories (including operating their own concentration camp), conducted medical experiments on those held in the concentration camps and manufactured the poison gas used to kill thousands.
www.cannabisculture.com /forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=wwwspin&Number=810505&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=all   (7225 words)

  
 swisspolitics.org | Nazi gas maker IG Farben faces insolvency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a brief statement on Wednesday, IG Farben IL said the firm faced insolvency due to defaults on monies owed to it.
After World War Two, IG Farben's assets were confiscated by the Allies and transferred to chemical giants Hoechst, Bayer and BASF.
IG Farben IL shares were suspended on the Frankfurt stock exchange.
www.swisspolitics.org /en/news/index.php?section=int&page=news_inhalt&news_id=4418208   (252 words)

  
 Boston.com / Business / IG Farben shareholders file lawsuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Shareholders of IG Farben, the firm that made poison gas used in the Holocaust, are suing a Swiss bank to get billions in reparations they believe should have gone to the chemical giant, their attorney said Thursday.
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Shareholders of IG Farben, the firm that made poison gas used in the Holocaust, are suing a Swiss bank to get billions in reparations they believe should have gone to the chemical giant, their attorney said Thursday.
A company founded by IG Farben and later acquired by Swiss bank UBS received compensation from the U.S. government for assets confiscated in the United States during World War II.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/02/05/ig_farben_shareholders_file_lawsuit?mode=PF   (242 words)

  
 The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben
The story of IG Farben is an Enron executive's wet dream.
IG Farben was the German industrial monopoly that turned the once Democratic Germany into a tool for terror and global domination simply because it was good for business.
If you've never heard of IG Farben, then the real story of Hitler's rise to power and the Military Industrial Complex that backed him may come as a shock.
www.hempfarm.org /Books/Punishment_of_IG_BOM.html   (227 words)

  
 Nazi pharmaceutical IG Farben fluoridation : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Pharma conglom IG Farben began testing chemicals on concentration camp inmates, meth and fluoride for behavior alteration.
Fluoridation of the drinking water was first developed by IG Farben, the Nazi chemical conglomerate.
Info was shared between IG Farben and American Alcoa Aluminum corporation, part of the Rockefeller empire.
www.indybay.org /news/2004/02/1669545.php   (419 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/german/farben.ig/farben.003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the course of these activities, millions of persons were uprooted from their homes, deported, enslaved, ill-treated, terrorized, tortured, and murdered.
Farben, in complete defiance of all decency and human considerations, abused its slave workers by subjecting them, among other things, to excessively long, arduous, and exhausting work, utterly disregarding their health or physical condition.
The working conditions at the Farben Buna plant were so severe and unendurable that very often inmates were driven to suicide by either dashing through the guards and provoking death by rifle shot, or hurling themselves into the high-tension electrically-charged barbed wire fences.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/orgs/ftp.py?orgs/german/farben.ig/farben.003   (331 words)

  
 Giuliani's latest efforts to poison NYC with IG Farben chemicals
IG Farben was half-owned by the Rockefeller family.
IG Farben/Standard Oil built Auschwitz and forty other concentration/slave labor camps in Germany and occupied Europe.
His fascination with using chemicals from IG Farben on human beings is just one of many such links.
www.bluecollarpolitics.com /lederman/giuliani-farben-3-11-01.html   (852 words)

  
 The GW Bush Gang: IG Farben 2001 (by by Robert Lederman) - Media Monitors Network
To grasp the real significance of what GW Bush's cabinet has been brought together to accomplish it is essential to understand the history of IG Farben, its relationship with American corporations and how together they applied modern technology to the task of eugenics or scientific racism.
At the end of WWII the allies split up IG Farben into companies that are now the top pharmaceutical concerns on earth among them Bayer, Hoescht, BASF, the Agfa-Gevaert Group and Cassella AG.
During WWII in IG Farben's slave labor camps Nazis scientists discovered that by adding fluoride to the drinking water they could make prisoners more submissive to authority.
www.mediamonitors.net /lederman1.html   (2185 words)

  
 CorpWatch : Germany: Farben to Create Slave Labor Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
FRANKFURT, Germany -- IG Farben, the German chemical company that made poison gas for Nazi death camps, will set up a compensation fund for Nazi-era slave laborers within weeks, an official in charge of liquidating the once-great firm said Wednesday.
The company once provided great services in the chemical and pharmaceutical branches, he said, but ''was in a horrible manner jointly guilty in the enslavement, degradation and extermination of innocent people during the time of the Nazis.''
In the 1950s, IG Farben paid $16.4 million in compensation to Holocaust survivors.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=600   (505 words)

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