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Bayer AG
A Corporate Profile

By Corporate Watch UK
Completed March 2002



Summary
Bayer AG is a massive German based chemicals and pharmaceuticals manufacturer. It has operations in most countries worldwide and had global sales for 2000 of nearly $30 billion.[1] Its operations are divided into four sectors: Health, Agriculture, Polymers (plastics, synthetic rubber) and Chemicals. It has recently acquired Aventis' controversial cropscience business, making it a key player in the development, commercialisation and sale of GM crops. As a major player in 4 controversial sectors for over 125 years Bayer has a distinguished history of corporate crimes ranging from the manufacture and sale of controversial drugs (Heroin, Ciproxin and Baycol), the development of chemical warfare agents and poisons (Chlorine Gas, Zyklon B and VX), the use of forced labour during WW2, and numerous cases of poisoning, side-effects and environmental pollution connected to its chemical and pharmaceutical products. In December 2001, Multinational Monitor rated Bayer AG as one of their Top Ten Worst Companies of the year.[2]



1. The Company



Bayer AG



1.1. Industry Areas
Bayer AG holds a key position in four market sectors: healthcare (pharmaceuticals), agriculture (seeds and agro-chemicals), polymers (plastics, synthetic rubber, coatings) and chemicals (chemical raw materials and specialised chemicals).


1.2. Market Share and Importance
Sector 2000 sales (million euros)[3] 2000 Global Ranking
Healthcare 10,028 N/A
Agriculture 3,455 4th (equal)[4]
Chemicals 4,275 5th[]
Polymers 11,398 N/A

By comparison with its closest competitors Bayer is something of a dinosaur. It is the only company to still maintain substantial holdings in all of these 4 areas. Up until the late 90s competitors, such as Monsanto, Astra-Zeneca, Novartis, Aventis, Du-Pont, Dow and BASF, accumulated holdings in the same areas in an attempt to exploit the life-sciences concept, the idea being that through using bio-technology, profitable synergies were possible between these different sectors. The life-science bubble has all but burst.


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In the last two years all of Bayer's major competitors have shed their holdings in one or more of these sectors in order to focus on a more defined set of interests. Bayer looks set to maintain its quadripedal structure, having recently announced its intention to transfer its 4 business divisions into independent corporate units owned by Bayer AG as an ultimate holding company.



1.3. History [6]
For over 125 years Bayer has been a major player in 4 of the most controversial business areas that capitalism has so far produced. They have a long and particularly nasty history of corporate crime (see also Corporate Crime section below internal link).



The first incarnation of what is currently Bayer AG was born out of the rush by European industrialists to develop and manufacture synthetic dyes in the second half of the 19th century. Friedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott opened a dye factory in 1863 in Wuppertal, Germany. The company Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. was launched in 1883. Bayer quickly diversified their activities into other areas of chemical manufacture, including photography and pharmaceuticals. Bayer also established operations throughout Europe and the US. Early Bayer discoveries included Antinonin (synthetic pesticide, 1892), Aspirin (1897), Heroin (1898) and Buna (synthetic rubber 1915). During WWI Bayer, along with other chemical manufacturers (both Allied and German), turned their attention to the manufacture of chemical weapons [7] including chlorine gas used to horrendous effect in the trenches.
During WWI Bayer had formed a close association with other German chemical companies including BASF and Hoechst. This relationship was formalised in 1925 with merger of these companies as well as AGFA, and others, to form the IG Farben Trust.[8]
IG Farben continued to grow during the inter-war period as one of the most powerful chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world. Products included polyurethanes and the first 'sulpha' drugs.
It is during Nazi-era Germany and WW2 that IG Farben (Bayer) entered its most sinister phase. IG Farben as the leading chemical company in Nazi Germany took over chemical plants across Nazi occupied Europe, used slave-labour in their factories (including operating their own concentration camp), conducted medical experiments on those held in the concentration camps and manufactured the poison gas used to kill thousands. At the end of the war the 1945 Potsdam Agreement called for the break up of IG Farben into its constituent companies. Twelve IG Farben employees and directors were jailed for war crimes at the Nuremburg Trials.
Bayer was re-established as Farbenfabriken Bayer AG in 1951, changing its name to the current Bayer AG in 1972. Although the post-WW2 Bayer is a different legal entity to the Bayer that pre-existed IG Farben, and that which formed part of IG Farben, a direct line of continuity can be traced between the personnel, infrastructure and technology of these 3 incarnations. Bayer has a very murky past that should be remembered.



For Bayer's rose-tinted, and very selective, version of its own history have a look at their Bayer Tapestry www.bayer.co.uk/tapestry/


Bayer 1 l 2 l 3 l 4 l 5 l 6




Footnotes
1 Bayer Financial Report 2000
2 'Corporations Behaving Badly: The Ten Worst Companies of 2001', Russel Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor, December 2001, p8-19.
3 Bayer Financial Report 2000
4 'Corporate Change' by Barbara Dinham PAN UK http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/pn53/pn53p12.htm
5 'Global Top 50 Chemical Companies' http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/7930/7930globaltop50table.html
6 information for this section unless further referenced in text comes from Bayer AG's own web site at http://www.bayer.com/en/unternehmen/historie/index.html , a Hoover's Online profile available at http://www.hoovers.com/premium/profile/8/0,2147,41808,00.html and from 'Global Parasites, Five Hundred Years of Western Culture' Winin Pereira and Jeremy Seabrook, 1994, Earthcare Books, p137-138.
7 'The Chemical Industry 1900-1930: International Growth and Technological Change' L.F. Haber. 1971 Clarendon Press. Oxford. p 209. Also 'Bayer:Research, Innovation, and Perseverance' available online from 'Pharmaceutical Century' http://pubs.acs.org/journals/pharmcent/company5.html
8 'Industrial Germany: A study of its Monopoly Organisations and their Control by the State', Hermann Levy, 2001, p65-66, available on line at http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/levy/Germany.pdf (page 66)


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Pesticides are big business. If you drew a chart of the growth of the industry from virtually zero in the 1940s to an agrochemical market worth $31 billion in 1998, the incline would resemble a cliff face. And it grows each year: 1998 was up 5% on 1997.1 Corporations are constantly merging to form ever-bigger conglomerations; for example, Novartis was formed from the merger of Ciba and Sandoz and is now planning to merge with Zeneca to form Syngenta. AgrEvo (itself a merger of Hoechst and Schering) is merging with Rhône-Poulenc to form Aventis. The two new corporations will be the biggest agrochemical companies in the world.

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Syngenta


Address:
Syngenta -- Global Headquarters
P.O. Box
CH-4002 Basel
Switzerland



Tel:

+41 61 323 1111



Website:

www.syngenta.com



Chairman:

Heinz Imhof (was Head of Novartis' Agribusiness division and a member of the Novartis executive committee from June 1999)



Sales:

US$ 6846 million



Pre Tax Profit:

US$ 450 million



Employees:

>20 000


The formation of Syngenta has been very significant in terms of the development of biotechnology companies. Syngenta was created by the merger of the agricultural divisions of AstraZeneca and Novartis. Both of which were only formed themselves in the last few years to create so called 'Life Science' companies which could span both the pharmaceutical and agricultural aspects of biotechnology. AstraZeneca, formed in April 1999, brought together the British based seed and agrochemical company Zeneca and the Swedish based pharmaceutical company Astra AB. Novartis formed, in 1996, from a merger of Ciba Geigy and Sandoz.  The formation of Syngenta is an example of how Biotechnology companies have wanted to keep their pharmaceutical divisions away from the bad image of agricultural biotechnology.


The merger deal was announced on 2 December 1999 and trading started on 13 November 2000. The new company combines the agricultural sectors of both AstraZeneca and Novartis. The deal does not include AstraZeneca's 50% share of the seed company Advanta (other 50% is with the Dutch company Cousin) which will remain with AstraZeneca.


The massive size of these companies meant their merger was only allowed under monopolies legislation of both the EU and the USA if a number of there interests where sold off.

Novartis sold; the entire Flint® business, the formulation for the fungicide cyproconazole in Europe, the herbicide propaquizafop, the insecticide tau-fluvalinate, and specific fungicide formulations, used for example on cereals in certain Nordic countries.
Zeneca Agrochemicals sold; its world-wide acetochlor corn herbicide business, sold under the brand names Surpass®, Topnotch® and FulTime® (primarily in the US) and Trophy®, Wenner® and Relay® (primarily in the rest of the world), its European sulcotrione corn herbicide business (Mikado®) and its world-wide flutriafol cereal fungicide business (including the Impact® brand).


 



Syngenta presence in the UK.


Syngenta


Syngenta, Europe & Africa Middle East,
CP HQ -- Regional Headquarters
Fernhurst
Haslemere
Surrey
GU27 3JE
Ph : +44 (0) 1428 644061
Fax : +44 (0) 1428 657375

Syngenta
Jealott's Hill
International Research Centre
Bracknell
Berks
RG42 6EY
ph : +44 (0) 1344 424701
Fax : +44 (0) 1344 455629




Syngenta Crop Protection
Syngenta Crop Protection UK Limited
Regional Headquarters
Whittlesford, Cambridge
CB2 4QT
customer.services@syngenta.com
Ph : +44 (0) 1223 833621
Fax : +44 (0) 1223 493700


Syngenta Crop Protection
Syngenta Bioline -- Sales Office
Telstar Nursery
Holland Road, Little Clacton
Essex
CO16 9QG
syngenta.bioline@syngenta.com
Ph : +44 (0) 1255 863200
Fax : +44 (0) 1255 863206




Syngenta Seeds Ltd.
HILLESHÖG -- Sales Office
Station Road,
Docking, King's Lynn,
Norfolk PE31 8LY
Ph : +44 (0) 1485 518631
Fax : +44 (0) 1485 518661


Syngenta Seeds
New Farm Crops Ltd
Cereals -- Sales Office
Market Stainton, Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
LN8 5LJ
Ph : +44 (0) 1507 343348
Fax : +44 (0) 1507 343526




Syngenta Seeds
Syngenta Seeds Ltd
NK -- Sales Office
Station Road
Docking, King's Lynn
Norfolk PE31 8LY
Ph : +44 (0) 1485 518631
Fax : +44 (0) 1485 518661


Syngenta Seeds
Syngenta Seeds Ltd,
Ormskirk Site - S&G -- Sales Office
17 Summerwood Lane
Ormskirk, Lancs. L39 8RQ
Ph : +44 (0) 1704 882882
Fax : +44 (0) 1704 841176




Syngenta Seeds
New Farm Crops -- Sales Office
Pampisford Road, Great Abington
Cambridge
CB1 6AH
Ph : +44 (0) 1223 893409
Fax : +44 (0) 1223 893371



UK related websites:


www.novartiscrop.ie
www.novartisbcm.co.uk
www.novartis-agri.co.uk
www.agri-index.co.uk
www.hilleshog.co.uk



www.newfarmcrops.co.uk
www.nkseeds.co.uk
www.sugarbeet.co.uk
www.syngenta-crop.co.uk




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http://www.wiesenthal.com/swiss/survey/noframes/conclusions.htm


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It is alleged that the firm Hoechst AG is aligned with the Nazis and
intends to extend eugenic control of the world population,
through the use of RU 486 and the World Health Organization.
Conceptionally, this is an interesting parallel to the pesticide/polio correlations, herein.
http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/nazi.html


http://sightings.com/political/weapons/poisonindust.htm


http://www.copi.com/Articles/NutraSweet/NutraPoison.html


http://www.twostar.com/oracle/library/health/nswt/poison.html


http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/farben.html


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http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/freerad.html


http://www.trufax.org/chrono/crc.html


http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/conspiracy.html


http://www.afn.org/~govern/rockfeller.html


This site reveals Ciba-Geigy's participation in the secret 1995 power meeting in Zurich:
http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/cocktail.htm


http://www.bilderberg.org/


Ciba joined Geigy to form Ciba-Geigy in the 1920s:
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/c.html


Duesberg refutes the dominant AIDS images, and
describes Ciba-Geigy's SMON epidemic (Japan) as Clioquinol-caused
http://www.duesberg.com


John Quinn, a journalist who has been investigating the
Columbine massacre (http://www.sightings.com),
associates Ritalin with youth violence


Journalist Jon Rappoport describges the
The Merrow Report, a PBS documentary on Ritalin that
covers Ciba-Geigy's financing of CHADD
(Children with Attention Deficit Disorder) with $818,000 and
CHADD's video, which the U.S. Department of Education circulated.
The report can be obtained by calling 1-800-877-2merrow.


This book is out of print, but the title says it:
Pills, Pesticides And Profits , North River Press, Inc. (1982)
by Robert Richter and Ruth Norris,


Adam Testad, in Malaysia, is organizing the puzzle into a large outline form:
http://www.ummah.net/dajjal/diet.html




I.G. Farben was a German chemical trust formed in 1925 from the cartel between Hoescht, BASF, Bayer, and other German companies. In response to the formation of Farben, the Swiss chemical companies Ciba, Geigy, and Sandoz formed Basel AG; and British companies, including Nobel Industries, formed Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Farben and Basel themselves merged from 1929 to 1939. Bayer made the first poison gas used by Germany in World War I; Bayer's U.S. operations were seized in 1917 and sold to Sterling Drug. Geigy invented DDT in 1939; a Nobel prize was awarded for its invention. Farben and the Nazis used Auschwitz concentration camp labor to manufacture synthetic rubber. Farben was broken up after World War II, and Basel dissolved itself in 1951 (Hoover's Handbook of World Business 1993, p. 138, 144, 188, 256, and 270).

See Joseph Borkin's The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben (New York: Free Press, 1978).
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The first ten chapters, illustrated, can be found here:

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Bayer and Exxon History part 11:

IG Auschwitz - the ideal business climate



Once Farben's Nazi's bought enough votes to entrench themselves in power, they made well on their election promise to their employers.


Hermann Schmitz, CEO of I.G. Farben 1935-1945.

I.G. Farben CEO Schmitz (right) meets the German Chancellor at the inaugauration of the German Art Museum, Munich, October 1933.

Beginning with joint Nazi-IG Farben synthetic oil and rubber ventures in 1933 that made Hitler's war machine self-sufficient,


I.G. Farben produces 100% of the tires for the Wehrmacht vehicles from synthetic rubber.


I.G. Farben Director Fritz ter Meer (second to right) speaks with the German Chancellor on the occassion of the first presentation of synthetic rubber products (Buna) at the Automotive Fair, Berlin, 1936.


I.G. Farben's subsidiaries in the Western hemisphere in 1936.
I.G. Farben had chemical plants in more than 100 countries.


I.G. Farben's Headquarters in Frankfurt is flagged in support of the Third Reich.



The corporate newspaper for employees, October 1935
The flag of the ruling party is on the cover page.



Role call of employees in an I.G. factory, 1938.


 Group photo with the new Chairman of the Board of I.G. Farben, 1937.
Hermann Abs: (Deutsch Bank) first row left.


Reichs-Secretary of Information and Propaganda Göbbels
with I.G. Farben Director Wilhelm Otto (center).


Wilhelm Mann, head of the marketing department of Bayer, inaugauration of a new administrative building of I.G. Leverkusen / Bayer, in 1939 Note the picture of the German Chancellor on the wall of the corporate office.


I.G. Farben companies are awarded corporate recognitions from the political leaders of the Third Reich.

the co-operation continued with the plunder of Europe's chemical industries. As the Nazi's invaded each country, I.G. would take control of the chemical companies. (51)


Official I.G. Farben Monthly, August 1940:
I.G. Farben managers analyse a map of Europe, pointing at England. Similar to the Wehrmacht's military generals, these I.G. Farben "corporate generals" plan the conquest of entire industries in the occupied countries. - Note the analogy to today -


Official I.G. Farben Monthly, April 1941: I.G. Farben managers analyse a map of Europe, pointing at South-Eastern Europe with the oil fields around the Black Sea as their target. - Note the analogy to today -


I.G. Farben monthly, June/July 1943: I.G. Farben is the largest corporate benefactor of the German Wehrmacht's military conquests of the Second World War. The title page visually supports the scenario of a total war .

If these "hostile takeovers" were good for business, slavery was even better. Instead of "work rather than phrases," many of the camps had "work will set you free" on their gates.


http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd0075/dachau-arbeit-48


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http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/historia_KL/brama_orkiestra_ok.html

It was the greatest false-advertising campaign in human history - unless you define "free" as "dead from exhaustion."


http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AnneFrank/AnneFrank04.html


Forced labor in a locksmith shop in Auschwitz, 1942-43.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery2/85025.htm

As the war dragged on, I.G. created it's own private camp called Monowitz - also known as Auschwitz III.


Monowitz was located right outside the largest synthetic oil and rubber factory in the world, the largest industrial complex outside the borders of the German Reich, and I.G.'s largest factory: I.G. Auschwitz. I.G. Farben owned 100% of I.G. Auschwitz.


http://homepages.ius.edu/JCAMPB04/



http://www.bbm-ww.de/book/buna4.html

The sight had been chosen by I.G. for the abundant water and coal in the area, not to mention all the free slave labor from Auschwitz I and II. (52 )

 


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Head of the Reich-Security Office Himmler, visiting with I.G. Farben Engineers at the construction site of the largest I.G. Farben factory at that time, I.G. Auschwitz, 1941

http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage/index-2001-09-17-frankfurt-ig-farben.html

I.G. created Monowitz because too many of their employees would die while marching to work every day.




The I.G. Farben Headquarters in Frankfurt/Main in 1943 It can still be visited today.

http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/reportage/index-2001-09-17-frankfurt-ig-farben.html




(51) "The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben" pp. 75-95, 121-140

(52) ibid, pp. 146-147

Thanks to Dr. Rath at the following link - a majority of the pics above were taken from here...

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/open_letters/omgus/omgus10.htm

Whole story here:

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Bayer and Exxon history #12:

Our investors would expect no less




IG Auswitz in 1943
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/The_Hague/kowalczyk.htm

Conditions at Monowitz and I.G. Auschwitz were a living nightmare. They were exploited, as one Nazi bigwig put it, "to the highest possible extent at the lowest possible expenditure." (53)


Slave Labor at the Gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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IG Auschwitz had the largest demand of slave labor from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/The_Hague/kowalczyk.htm


Truth be told, it was even worse than that. You could get a lot of work out of a slave over the course of the slave's long life - America did it with black "slaves" before and black "criminals" today. But the "slaves" at I.G. Auschwitz were quickly worked to death. It was not slave labor, it was death labor.


Group of women prisoners march to forced labor. (1943 - 1944)
http://lams.slcusd.org/pages/teachers/coward/webzine2k3/fourth/melissaweb/Kaylaweb/concebtration camp.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blcampsplaszow.htm








Prisoners carrying food containers for other prisoners performing forced labor. (1943 - 1944)

The diet was designed to kill you from exhaustion in three months - less if you were weak or sick. A Buna plant worker and Auschwitz escapee vividly described the work conditions:

."..(our working place) was divided into small sectors of 10 x 10 posts, each guarded by an SS man. Whoever stepped outside these squares during working hours was immediately shot without warning for having "attempted to escape." Often it happened that out of pure spite an SS man would order a prisoner to fetch some given object outside his square. If he followed the order, he was shot for having left his assigned place. The work was extremely hard and there were no rest periods. The way to and from work had to be covered at a brisk military trot; anyone falling out of line was shot. ... Very few could bare the strain and although escape seemed hopeless, attempts were made every day. The result was several hangings a week." (54)


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Daily march of Slave Laborers from Auschwitz Concentration Camp III (Monowitz)
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http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/The_Hague/kowalczyk.htm


SS guard


http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/nietzsche/nietzsche.html


http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/1H-run.htm

Fritz ter Meer - one of the top overseers of I.G. Auschwitz and the highest-ranking member to do time for war crimes - said at his trial:

"Forced labor did not inflict any remarkable injury, pain, or suffering on the detainees, particularly since the alternative for these workers would have been death." (55)


Fritz ter Meer - in 1947 sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/health_movement_against_codex/health_movement24.htm

Fritz didn't bother to mention the fact that I.G.'s campaign contributions, the anti-Semitic and authoritarian examples they set and prototype concentration camps they conceived in WWI were the main factors in limiting their present "detainees" options so dramatically.



(53) "The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben" p 154

(54) ibid, p. 144

(55) www.health4us.org/codex.html, see also: 194.247.116.119/archivsite/Documents/goeson.htm


See also:

http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/essays/essay_Fried06_main.htm

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005564

http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/index.utp?content=bibliography/forcedlabor/right.htm

http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/146-148.html

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blcampsplaszow.htm



http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/health_movement_against_codex/health_movement24.htm

Just fifteen years after they were convicted in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, these companies were again the architects of the next major human rights offences. In 1962, they established the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

This dark period of German history is inextricably bound to one man, Fritz ter Meer:

He was a member of the Managing Board of IG Farben from its inception to its dissolution. As the Wartime Manager, he was responsible for IG Auschwitz.

In the Nuremberg Tribunal, ter Meer stated: "Forced labor did not inflict any remarkable injury, pain, or suffering on the detainees, particularly since the alternative for these workers would have been death."

In 1948, ter Meer was sentenced by the Nuremberg Tribunal to seven years in prison for plundering and slavery.

In 1952, his sentence was commuted, due to the influence of powerful friends.

From 1956-1964, he was reinstated as a member of the Managing Board of Bayer AG.

In 1962, ter Meer was one of the architects of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and one of the main designers of the schemes that would profit from human suffering.


The deceptive title "Codex Alimentarius" is no accident. It was devised by the same firms and indeed the same individuals, who gave the Auschwitz concentration camp inmates the deceptive slogan "Arbeit mach frei" ("Work makes you free").

I thought this chapter should be called "From those who brought you Sativex ... Zyklon B!"

Again, the whole story is found at

http://www.cannabisculture.com/news/gwbayer

Bayer and Exxon history part 13:

Making a killing off gas sales


http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/TourText/area07_holocaust.htm

Zyklon B - "Cyclone B" in German - was the name of the gas that the Nazi's used to kill off scapegoats not lucky enough to be selected for death labor.



http://www.bbl-online.com/bilder-aw2.htm


http://www.e-papyrus.de/vernichtungslager.html

Zyklon B was sold by Degesch, a company owned (mostly) by I.G. Farben. Degesch profits "doubled" as a result of its Zyklon B sales - they even saved money removing the now-superfluous "warning odor." (56)


http://www.bbl-online.com/bilder-aw2.htm


http://www.holocaustinfo.org/faq/3.html

Various I.G. gasses were tested on Auschwitz prisoners. (57) Various I.G. pharmaceuticals were, too. (58)


http://www.sundweb.com/Auschwitz/bild44.htm


Most died from the experiments themselves - others were eliminated due to concerns of a proprietary nature. One of the SS doctors at Auschwitz, Dr. Helmut Vetter, a longtime Bayer employee, was involved in the testing of Bayer experimental vaccines and medicines on inmates. He was later executed for giving inmates fatal injections. (59)

Bayer would constantly send "new preparations" to try out on prisoners, and argue over the cost of Ukrainian women as if they were lab mice. (60) This was not the beginning - and unfortunately not the end - of Bayer's very profitable bio-weapons department ... more on that a little later on in the story.

One final note on gas. According to author William Cooper;

In the early 1940s, the I.G. Farben Chemical Company employed a Polish salesman who sold cyanide to the Nazis for use in Auschwitz. The same salesman also worked as a chemist in the manufacture of the poison gas. This same cyanide gas along with Zyklon B and malathion was used to exterminate millions of Jews and other groups. ... After the war the salesman, fearing for his life, joined the Catholic Church and was ordained a priest in 1946. ... The salesman was ordained Poland's youngest bishop in 1958. After a 30-day reign his predecessor was assassinated and our ex-cyanide gas salesman assumed the papacy as Pope John Paul II. (61)


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope/etc/bio.html

This information is repeated by various other sources. Solvay is mentioned in the Pope's biography on the Vatican's own website. (62)

(56) "The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben" pp. 155-156

(57) ibid, p. 167

(58) Astor, Gerald, "The 'Last' Nazi - The Life and Times of Dr. Joseph Mengele," 1985, Paper Jacks LTD, p. 120

(59) Ross, Brian, "Headaches for Bayer - Auschwitz Survivor Says Pharmaceutical Giant Aided Nazis"
(ABCNEWS.com) abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_990611bayer.html - See also: www.hannibal.net/stories/021999/SurvivingMengele.html

(60) "Bayer Buys Berkeley," Jenny Miller, Z Magazine, January 1992, pp. 22-23

(61) William Cooper, "Behold a Pale Horse," 1991, Light Technology Publishing, p. 89-90

(62) www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_breve_en.html - "Pope Once Slaved for Vatican Aide's Firm," SF Chronicle, 1/12/83. - www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html#fn87 - verticals.chemweek.com/cs/mag/cs4.html - iresist.com/cbg/rockefeller.html - www.japan1.freewebspace.com/spy/air3.htm "It is worth noting that in his youth J.P. II was, according to the official version, once a slave laborer for I.G. Solvay, a Farben subsidiary specializing primarily in pharmaceuticals. He is supposed to have labored in the Solvay quarries near Auschwitz."

Something that I just noticed.....

Dr. Vetter managed to keep his face off the internet. Not so for Dr. Clauberg.


http://home3.inet.tele.dk/c-4/photogallery/Carl_Clauberg.jpg

"Civilian Dr. Karl Clauberg, a professor of gynecology in East Prussia and an author of a number of scientific books and treatises, furnished not only a laboratory for research but a profit center as well. He struck a deal with I.G. Farbenindustrie to test their pharmaceuticals on inmates of Auschwitz, in exchange for which the company agreed to pay him goodly sums of money for each project."
The "Last" Nazi - Gerald Astor, Paperjacks, 1986, p. 120



http://home.sandiego.edu/~mfrazer/MedicalEXP.html
http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/clauberg.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/two.htm

"Clauberg theorized that a substance called caladium sequinum could sterilize both sexes and contracted to buy 150 women from the SS. The Nazi's delivered a group of Jewish women from Holland.


Anne Frank - A young jewish woman from Holland.
http://www.historyswomen.com/AnneFrank.html

They were led off a few minutes after debarking from the train, surrounded by whip weilding guards and snapping dogs.


Arrival and selection of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz, 1944
Gutman, Yisrael and Michael Berenbaum. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1994. p. 357
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/trials/profiles/hungary1.html

Some were pregnant, some young, some beyond the age of childbirth. Before the amused SS troopers, the candidates were forcibly undressed, their heads were shaven, their pubic hair removed.


Liberated twenty year old female camp inmate from Austria
(picture taken by physicians after the liberation in 1945)
http://www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Muselfrau-Quelle.html
http://www.zchor.org/birenbaum/women.htm

"A greasy delo using cream was spread over their bodies," said Dr. Karel Sperber, and inmate-doctor, while the onlookers joked as ointment was smeared over the genitalia. Clauberg then proceeded to inject caladium sequinum into various parts of the bodies, producing excruciating pains. ... Clauberg's team plucked out ovaries, artificially inseminated women and then removed their reproductive organs, even transplanted cancer cells into wombs before cutting them out a month later to determine the results. ... Mengele made himself a member of the group searching for a simple, chemical means of mass sterilization. .... Sonderkommando Filip Muller had the job of disposing of the remains from the research of Mengele and his colleagues: "Some of the corpses were horrible to look at. Often they had been dismembered or dissected. Many were bodies of young men and women who bore strange burns and festering wounds on their testicles or lower parts of the body or abscesses on their bellies and thighs."
The "Last" Nazi - Gerald Astor, Paperjacks, 1986, p. 120-121



http://home.sandiego.edu/~mfrazer/burntkids.jpg

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/experiside.html#n04