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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...
...author; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase, Md. A trustbuster with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1938 to 1946, Borkin also pursued his commitment to social justice with such books as The Corrupt Judge (1962) and last year's The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, an expose of the German chemical company that provided Hitler's troops with poison...
...Germany, the prince studied law at the University of Berlin where, like all German students, he was forced to become a member of the Hitler Youth Movement. Severing all connection with the Nazi Party, Bernhard, after his graduation in 1935, took a job in the Paris office of I.G. Farben, the German chemical cartel. While attending the 1936 Winter Olympics in Germany, the prince met and charmed the plain but sweet-tempered Princess Juliana, Queen Wilhelmina's only child and the heir to the Dutch throne. Renouncing his German citizenship, Bernhard married Juliana the following year and took...