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IG Farben was once the largest company in Europe and the largest chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world. IG Farben scientists made fundamental contributions to all areas of chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry.
May 18, 2024 · IG Farben, (German: “Syndicate of Dyestuff-Industry Corporations”), world’s largest chemical concern, or cartel, from its founding in Germany in 1925 until its dissolution by the Allies after World War II.
The history of the founding of the camp is connected with the initiative by the German chemical concern IG Farbenindustrie A.G. to build its third large plant for synthetic rubber and liquid fuels. The new camp was to be located in Silesia, beyond the range of Allied bombers at the time.
The IG Farben Case was Case #6 of 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings against leading German industrialists, military figures, SS perpetrators, and others.
The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany after the end of World War II.
I.G. Farben was a German Limited Company that was a conglomerate of eight leading German chemical manufacturers, including Bayer, Hoechst and BASF, which at the time were the largest chemical firms in existence.
Histories of the Auschwitz concentration camp often presuppose that the Nazi technological processes of annihilation were derived from the tenets of racial purity and Nordic Romanticism (Katz 2008). The history of IG Monowitz, the sub-concentration camp financed, constructed and staffed by IG Farben, provides a counterargument to the idea that ...
Aug 6, 2009 · The story of the IG Farben chemical conglomerate is one with tremendous relevance for the present day. Formed in 1925, from a merger of a number of familiar firms including Agfa, BASF and Bayer, it was the largest industrial concern in Europe, and soon found itself embroiled in Hitler’s ‘revolution’, emerging as one of the mainstays of ...
May 2, 1999 · GERMANY is still haunted by many ghosts from the dark years of Nazi rule, but few are as enduring or as strange as the specter of I.G. Farben. Once the world's biggest chemical conglomerate,...
In Nuremberg were sentenced senior officials in the chemical company IG Farben, whose subsidiary Degesch produced the Zyklon B gas used for the mass murder of the Jews in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Majdanek.
