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	IG Farben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent and which was used in the gas chambers for mass murder, was manufactured by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), a company owned equal 42.2 percent in shares by IG Farben and which had IG managers in its Managing Committee.
		I.G. Farben is mentioned and vilified in L.
	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)

	BBC NEWS Business Former Zyklon-B maker goes bust
		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)

	CorpWatch : Germany: Farben to Create Slave Labor Fund
		IG Farben had an estimated 83,000 slave workers by 1944 at the Auschwitz complex in what is now Poland.
		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.
		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.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=600 (505 words)

	Bayer, Hitler, Saddam Hussein Leader International Terroriste
		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.
		The official reason: BAYER is not the legal successor of IG Farben.
	www.conspiration.cc /sujets/politique/bayer_hitler_hussein_terro.htm (7607 words)

	IG Farben to file for bankruptcy - http://www.theage.com.au
		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 /articles/2003/11/11/1068329520914.html (286 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 black 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)

	Bayer, Hoechst AG, IG Farben and Nazi Germany
		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.
		A proposal made by the German delegation and sponsored by Hoechst, Bayer and BASF the three corporations that were formerly IG Farben before they were ordered to disband after the Nuremberg Trials.
		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.
	www.thegreatboycott.net /nazi.html (3049 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/german/farben.ig/farben.003
		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.
		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.
		In the course of these activities, millions of persons were uprooted from their homes, deported, enslaved, ill-treated, terrorized, tortured, and murdered.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/orgs/ftp.py?orgs/german/farben.ig/farben.003 (331 words)

	Forbes.com: Nazi gas firm IG Farben to file for insolvency
		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.
		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".
		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)

	CHAPTER TWO: The Empire of I.G. Farben
		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.
		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.
		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.
	reformed-theology.org /html/books/wall_street/chapter_02.htm (4375 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 managers were convicted as war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
		IG Farben's subsidiary Degesch manufactured Zyklon B, the poison gas used in the gas chambers.
	ngin.tripod.com /200702b.htm (2625 words)

	I.G. Farben by Richard Sasuly - German Drug Cartels, International Drugs
		IG Farben and the kind of cartel practice of which it was the most dynamic specimen are still very much with us.
		The case of IG Farben cannot yet be laid away in the historian's file.
		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.
	www.ftrbooks.net /psych/drug_industry/ig_farben.htm (804 words)

	IG Farben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IG Farben is mentioned and vilified in L Ron Hubbard 's "Mission Earth" decalogy, mainly for the supply of amphetamines.
		The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent and which was used in the gas chambers for mass murder, was manufactured by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), a company owned equal 42.2 percent in shares by IG Farben and which had IG managers in its Managing Committee.
		Poland, IG Farben cooperated closely with the Nazi officials and directed which chemical plants should be secured and delivered to IG Farben.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IG_Farben (804 words)

	The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben
		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.
		The story of IG Farben is an Enron executive's wet dream.
		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)

	Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
		"The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations, inside a ten-kilometer radius, stone blind.
		"Kryptosam" is a proprietary form of stabilized tyrosine, developed by IG Farben as part of a research contract with OKW" 71
		"Michele, who's been fondling his IG Farben trinket" 245
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/gravity/extra/ig.html (643 words)

	History of abortion - Hitler, Planned Parenthood & Margaret Sanger
		IG Farben profited handsomely because of the increased use of Zyklon-B. IG Farben's name became virtually synonymous with the holocaust and unethical medical experimentation.
		The ghost of IG Farben is still haunting us by allowing killers to again distance themselves from their deeds.
		Borrowing from the IG Farben playbook, Upjohn Pharmaceuticals stock prices doubled when it announced the development of a vaginal prostaglandin-suppository marketed specifically for abortion.
	www.lifedynamics.com /DeathCamps/Holocaust9.cfm (212 words)

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

	Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/german/farben.ig/farben.001
		Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac - I.G. Farben removed 'indicator' from gas Summary: S.S. orders Degesch (controlled by Farben, Degesch manufactured Zyklon B) to remove the warning odor added to Zyklon B. Degesch balks, then complies.
		I.G.'s dividends on its Degesch investment for the years 1942, 1943, and 1944 were double those of 1940 and 1941.
		The use to which the S.S. was putting the gas was now clear to those who made it, if they had harboured doubts before.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/orgs/german/farben.ig/farben.001 (578 words)

	Cannabis Culture Forums: Explaining War & answering Abby: Bayer 101
		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.
		IG Farben continued to grow during the inter-war period as one of the most powerful chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world.
		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.
	www.cannabisculture.com /forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=wwwspin&Number=810505&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=all (7225 words)

	Boston.com / Business / IG Farben shareholders file lawsuit
		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 (226 words)

	Cipro. anthrax and IG Farben : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		But it was made by Farben -- all Winthrop did was to put it in ampules or to compress it into tablets and distribute the new remedy under its own label as made in America.
		It was not until 1932 that Farben chemists finally came up with a quinine synthesis from coal tar called Quinacrine Hydrochloride, which was sold under the name Atabrine.
		Farben hid its tentacles well, through a series of dummy holding companies, interlocking directorships, and, patent licenses.
	www.indybay.org /news/2001/10/106577_comment.php (2054 words)

	Nazi gas firm IG Farben targeted - Aug. 18, 1999
		The protests came as the shareholders of the remaining shell entity, known as IG Farbenindustrie, convened in Frankfurt to vote on a compensation fund for Holocaust survivors.
		IG Farben, the world's fourth-largest company until its liquidation in 1952, has been battling to reclaim assets that were seized by the Allies after World War II.
		Much of IG Farben's confiscated property was subsequently nationalized by the Soviet-era government of the now defunct East Germany.
	money.cnn.com /1999/08/18/europe/farben (455 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)

	I. G. Farben Building
		Although the Farben conglomerate occupied the Building for only approximately 15 years of its over 70-year lifetime, the name "Farben Building" has non-officially remained until now when it is hoped it will be more-readily recognized as Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität's Poelzig-Bau housing the Universität's Department for the Study of Humanities.
		To me, stationed with the U.S. Army in Frankfurt, Germany, in l963-1965, the building was known as the I.G. Farben Building and later, as the General Creighton W. Abrams Building.
		It is said that General Eisenhower gave specific instructions at the time of the Allied bombing of Frankfurt to avoid damage to the Farben Building, which he wanted to use as his headquarters after the War.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/IGFarben (1488 words)

	Ownership of all Life
		In the buildup to World War 2, the Nazi cartel IG Farben engaged in a kind of mystical conjuring.
		They were now sanitized separate corporations, no longer parts of an official Nazi-aiding IG Farben.
		Farben’s oil and rubber processing, in the 1930s, were years ahead of the rest of the world’s technology.
	www.truthseeker.com /catalog/ownership.html (817 words)

	I.G. Farben's Pact With the Devil
		The I.G. Auschwitz projects were so vital to Germany's military plans that I.G. was able to marshal the aid of the most powerful figures in the Nazi government.
		In these decrees, the Reich Marshal obligated the offices concerned to meet your requirements in skilled workers and larborers at once, even at the expense of other important building projects or plans which are essential to the war economy.
		Wolff guaranteed that the payment would include `everything such as transportation, food, et cetera and [I.G.] will have no other expenses for the inmates, except if a small bonus (cigarettes, etc.) is given as an incentive.
	webletter.net /cybrary/Facts.aft.perp.igpact.html (736 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.
		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.
		The defendants in this case all were directors of IG Farben, a large German conglomerate of chemical firms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IG_Farben_Trial (736 words)

	German Industry and Global Enterprise BASF: The History of A Company
		There is an obvious attempt to tap-dance around the involvement of the BASF component of IG Farben in Nazi crimes.
		On the one hand, there is trumpeting of the facts that the former BASF led IG Farben in production, investment, and research and development.
		Stokes does point out that the former core of BASF, the Ludwigshafen, Oppau, and Leuna factories were producing synthetic rubber and gasoline and that these production lines led to the involvement of IG Farben with the death and labor camp at Auschwitz.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0785.shtml (1063 words)

	Nuremberg Trials
		The trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg (Nürnberg) from 1945 to 1949 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice (the only court in Germany large enough to host the event that had not been destroyed by Allied bombing).
		The trials were conducted under their own rules of evidence; the indictments were created ex post facto and were not based on any nation's law; the tu quoque defense was removed; and the entire spirit of the assembly was " victor's justice ".
		The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/nu/nuremberg_trials.html (1063 words)

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