jnap31 - my apologies - it was not my intention to preach. It simply worries me when folks ignore the obvious. Being german myself - the connection between certain US companies and the german Hitler/Nazi era had never occured to me - it was also not taught in school as far as I remember looking back. This info has intrigued me very much to the point where I spend a considerable amount of time last night and earlier today in doing more research - as some of the names mentioned in the unofficial Bush Biography sounded kinda familiar.
As this appears to be far of the subject of NAIS [but really is not if you look at the connections] - let me just say this -
Scum always floats to the top!
IG Farben mentioned in the same sentence than the parent company of Exxon [Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey] did ring a bell and I did a bit more online search about them - IG Farben was a german conglomerate consisting originally out of Bayer, BASF, AGFA, Hoechst and several other smaller chemical companies - they turned out to be the driving force and owners of Auschwitz + Buchenwald - the well known concentration camps.
Having read up on this - they also financed a fair share of Hitlers political campaigns and start up in the 3rd Reich. Coincidentally - this was not taught in school when I was a kid - some 30odd years back - it may be now - but honestly doubt it. After the Nuernburg Trials - in which several members of the board of directors, department heads and leaders of IG Farben had been convicted of crimes against humanity and of war crimes - they ended up with minimal prison sentences of which many were commuted due to influence of "important" friends and contacts.
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Due to the severity of the war crimes committed by IG Farben during World War II, the company was considered to be too corrupt to be allowed to continue to exist, and the allies considered confiscating all of its assets and putting it out of business. Instead, in 1951, the company was split up into the original constituent companies. The four largest quickly bought the smaller ones, and today only Agfa, BASF, and Bayer remain, while Hoechst merged with the French Rhône-Poulenc Rorer to form Aventis, now based in Strasbourg, France.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/ig-farben
Bayer, BASF + AGFA are household names in Germany today - and I bet you that the majority of todays adults have no clue that they have been involved in the atrocities of Auschwitz - I did not know - and as I mentioned - this connection was not taught in school. As a matter of fact - I clearly recall taking [either in grade 8 or 9] a class trip to BASF - a huge factory compound in ludwigshafenL- nowhere was there any mention of war crimes etc or involvement with WWII.
Duh! Of course not.
Furthermore...
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After the Holocaust, I.G. Farben joined with Americans to develop chemical warfare agents. Together they founded the "Chemagrow Corporation" in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chemagrow Corporation employed German and American specialists for the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Dr. Otto Bayer was I.G. Farben's research director. He developed and tested chemical warfare agents with Dr. Gerhard Schrader.
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Furthermore - and I see it is the same over here in the US - history repeats itself! The "disgraced" managers of IG Farben found their ways back into influential political or private industry sector positions - and I quote:
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During the 50's and 60's they [Bayer, BASF + Hoechst] invested in the political career of a young representative from a suburb of the BASF town of Ludwigshafen, his name: Helmut Kohl.
From 1957 to 1967 the young Helmut Kohl was a paid lobbyist of the "Verband Chemischer Industrie," the central lobby organization of the German pharmaceutical and chemical cartel. Thus, the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry built up one of its own as a political representative, leaving the German people with only the choice of final approval.
The result is well known: Helmut Kohl was chancellor of Germany for 16 years and the German pharmaceutical and chemical industry became the world’s leading exporter of chemical products, with subsidiaries in over 150 countries, more than IG Farben ever had.
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http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/P...l_industry.htm
Jnap - I could go on and on and bring up the similarly well known household names here in the US. Following names are mentioned on many of the same documents - some in regards to WWII profiteering, others in their interest in eugenics - such as as Hanes [hosiery, underwear, socks etc - wonder if Michael Jordan knows they support Eugenics]; Exxon [ geesh who ended up paying for the cleanup of those oil spills - and I wonder why???]; Shell [formerly Royal Dutch which appears to be mainly owned by the british royal family]; Union Banking Corporation [the elder Bush's grandfather - I believe], Dresser Industries + Draper who keeps coming up top no matter what kind of dirt he has under his fingernails; Clarence Gamble [as in Proctor + Gamble], and on and on ... It is positively sickening = and what is worse - few of us "average" ppl have any clue because things like this are out of the scope of imagination for most of us.
I am very curious - as in regards to history and schooling - are any of these connections taught here in regards to WWII, Nazi times and eugenics? Does anyone recall hearing any of this in your school days?
