Word: farben
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rnberg last week the U.S. posed the same question for U.S. businessmen who had armed the U.S. war machine. The U.S. indicted 24 former German industrialists, all officials of I. G. Farben Co., as war criminals, the first such indictment against businessmen in history. Among those whom it placed in the same category as Hitler and Göring were Farben's board chairman Hermann Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting...
...word indictment that linked Farben to six U.S. corporations and to some 500 others throughout the world, the U.S. charged that "Hitler . . . and Farben found a basis for close collaboration as early as 1932. [Hitler] came to power with generous financial assistance from Farben and . . . Farben's foreign agents formed the core of Nazi intrigue throughout the world. . . . Ostensibly acting only as businessmen, [they] carried on propaganda and espionage activities indispensable to German preparation for and waging of aggressive...
Most damning charge was that Farben experimented on slave labor and concentration camp inmates with "deadly gases, vaccines and related products." To supply slave labor for its synthetic rubber plant at Oswiecim, Farben allegedly constructed a concentration camp and worked the men, women & children so hard that an estimated 100 a day died from exhaustion...
Though some businessmen were baffled by the sudden uproar, Rand knew very well what he was doing. The Government had seized G.A.F. in the belief that G.A.F.'s Swiss parent, I.G. Chemie, was a front for Germany's I.G. Farben. But since the war's end I.G. Chemie has intensified its claims that it never was any such thing. Remington has bought large interests in I.G. Chemie-and in Interhandel, its corporate successor. If Rand can prove that U.S. seizure of G.A.F. was unwarranted, it will have to be returned to the Swiss, with whom his chances...
...state and 49% by Germans), the enterprise has an official capital of over eight billion marks ($800,000,000). Its real value is estimated at twice that sum. It employs nearly 400,000 workers and embraces the choicest 30% of all German industry in the Soviet zone, including I.G. Farben. Russian reparation seizures and forced nationalization already took care of other large chunks. Economic pharaoh of this pyramid of 13 trusts was one Alexei Resnikov...