Alois
Kolar
Text taken from the References
Global enterprise Bayer is costly celebrationing its remarcable 150th birthday, yet the company´s crimes are not mentioned at all in the commemorative publications.
Instead of acknowledging responsibility for forced labor, poison gas and fatal
pharmaceutical products, the company's history is wholly ignored, as "it works all the time for good of all human population".
Hm, Chemical-pharmaceutical industry..., what a "science" we have in this Planet, crisis, crisis...
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SS Reichfuerher Heinrich Himmler tours
with SS officers and IG Farben enginers |
World
War II – a war that cost the lives of more than 60 million people – was planned
and financed by IG Farben, the world’s largest chemical/pharmaceutical cartel
at that time. Consisting of Bayer, BASF, Hoechst and other companies, IG Farben
companies financed the
rise to power of the Nazi party and the transformation of German
democracy into a dictatorship. After WWII, the corporate executives of Bayer
and IG Farben were tried at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal and found guilty
of plunder, exploitation, slavery and mass murder. In particular, it was found
that criminal
medical experiments had been conducted by Bayer and IG Farben on the enslaved inmates
of Auschwitz and other concentration camps in order to test the effects of
deadly gases and vaccines. Drugs forcibly given to the inmates were used to
develop the first
generation of chemotherapy drugs. Some of the most heinous crimes were
conducted by Fritz ter Meer, a director of IG Farben who had been
responsible for the construction and operation of IG Auschwitz, a 100% subsidiary of IG Farben
that was the largest industrial complex in the world at that time.
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| IG Auschwitz factory |
Concentration camp prisoners who were too weak or too sick to work were
selected at the main gate of the IG Auschwitz factory and sent to the gas
chambers. Even the chemical gas Zyklon B used for the annihilation of
millions of people was derived from the drawing boards and factories of IG
Farben.
Nevertheless, despite ter Meer's appalling crimes, he was released from
prison after serving only two years. Then, in 1956, fully aware that he was a
convicted war criminal, Bayer appointed him as chairman of its supervisory
board, a post he went on to hold for 8 years.
Subsequently, after ter Meer’s
death in 1967, the company
reportedly continued to lay wreaths on his grave until at least 2006. To learn
more about the hidden history of Bayer and IG Farben, visit the Profit Over Life website.
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Chiclayo –
Lambayeque, Perú, domingo 28 de junio de 2013
