IG Farben
IG Farben (short for Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG), was a group of German chemical companies formed in 1925. Farben is German for "paints", "dyes", or "colors".
Initially most of these companies produced dyes, but soon began to do more advanced chemistry. The founding of IG Farben was a reaction to Germany's defeat in World War I. IG Farben held a near total monopoly on chemical production.
IG was the company which produced chemical weapons which were available to the Wehrmacht in WWII. These included nerve gases which were never used against the allied armies for the reason that the Allies were though to have the same capability. However, Zyklon B was used in the Holocaust to murder Jewish prisoners.[1] The SS was an authorized applier of the chemical.[2]
IG Farben Media
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Carl Duisberg, chairman of Bayer, argued in 1904 for a merger of Germany's dye and pharmaceutical companies.[3]
Share of the I. G. Farbenindustrie AG, issued in December 1925
IG Farben facilities in Germany, 1932
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Occupation zones of Germany, 1945 (American, British, French and Soviet)
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The defendants in the dock on the first day of the IG Farben trial, 27 August 1947
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IG Farben building in 2007
References
- ↑ Gutman, Yisrael; Berenbaum, Michael (eds) 1994. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 157–182. ISBN 0-253-32684-2
- ↑ Hayes, Peter 2004. From cooperation to complicity: degussa in the Third Reich. Cambridge; New York; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78227-9
- ↑ Beer 1981, pp. 124–125.
