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Jun 10, 2024 · It was once a Nazi experimental botanical station and was intended to boost the work of the IG Farben factory by growing and extracting latex from a type of Russian dandelion (Taraxacum...
Jun 23, 2024 · Collaborated with Degussa AG – now Evonik Industries – and IG Farben – to produce sodas used in Zyklon B – utilized in concentration camps to commit mass murder. For example, BASF, leader of the chemical branch of IG Farben, built a chemical factory at the IG Farben factory in Auschwitz III-Monowitz, called "IG Auschwitz".
At the Nuremburg trials, several of IG Farben’s senior executives were convicted of war crimes, and the conglomerate was broken up. Its pharmaceutical division was then re-established under ...
3 days ago · Monowitz prisoners unload cement from trains for IG Farben, presented as evidence at the IG Farben trial. Initially, it was planned to hold a second international tribunal for German industrialists, but this was never held because of differences between the Allies.
Jun 19, 2024 · Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine, by Diarmuid Jeffreys. Hell’s Cartel, Diarmuid Jeffreys’ compelling story of the role of Germany’s largest industrial concern in the rise of the Nazis and the conduct of World War II.
5 days ago · As necessary, the Germans selected able-bodied prisoners for forced labour in the factories adjacent to Auschwitz, where one German company, IG Farben, invested 700 million Reichsmarks in 1942 alone to take advantage of forced labour, a capital investment.
1 day ago · Otto Hahn ( pronounced [ˈɔtoː ˈhaːn] ⓘ; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and ...
