Posted on 07/22/2015 12:37:17 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
IG Farben was the monstrous German chemical cartel. In the age of monopoly capitalism, if you were a sausage maker, you couldn't be a solo act, you'd either join the sausage cartel or they'd drive you out of business like Standard Oil did to small petroleum shippers. IG Farben took the blame for losing WW1, after their invention factory developed the Haber-Bosch Nitrogen Fixation process to make gunpowder and fertilizer out of air, they were 6 months too late making gasoline out of coal, so they took the blame, were looking for the man who became Hitler by 1923. Their corporate militia the SS would roll out choice industrial properties ahead of the Wehrmacht in newly invaded countries, like the Skoda Werke chemical company in Behomeia, stick a gun in the owner's mouth and get him to SIGN off his assets. They made up for the coal gassification lag by scouting out a Polish location Oswiecim, they only ran their Jew-gassing operation in Auschitz as a sideline. (Strangely, Auschwitz was off limits to the Allied strategic bombing campaign.) PPFA as an untouchable operation bears a strange similarity to IG Farben: After the war, it couldn't be touched because of Communism, so it was broken relatively intact into its former constituents Bayer, BASF and Hoescht -- the latter now the parent of the French Roussel Uclaf, maker of human pesticide RU-486, just as Farben had made Cyclone-B/Zyklon B.
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