Word: farben
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...these fathers ended with World War II. In 1943 Levi joined a band of partisans to fight Italy's Fascists and the Germans. He was captured and sent to Auschwitz, where his skills as a chemist kept him alive. He worked as a slave at a privately owned I.G. Farben laboratory, which was part of the death-camp complex...
Ludwigshafen, Germany, July 28,1948. A railway car transporting dimethylether, used in making acetic acid and dimethylsulfate, to the I.G. Farben chemical plant, exploded inside the factory gates. The blast and resulting fire killed 207 people and injured...
...parts of the company, not whether to do it. Two weeks ago, management announced that it had reached a $410 million deal with Allied Corp. to sell GAF's chemical business, its mainstay since the days when it was known as General Aniline & Film, a part of I.G. Farben. The firm was seized as German property by the Government during World War II, but it was turned back to private shareholders in 1965. Selling off its chemical operations would leave GAP with little more than one radio station. Another division that makes roofing is also due to be sold...