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Threatdown: Bayer
I.G. Farben was a conglomerate chemical company founded in Germany in 1925. During the time of Hitler’s “final solution”, I.G. Farben was responsible for manufacturing Zyklon B- the poison gas used to exterminate Jews (and others) in death camps such as Auschwitz.
After the fall of the Third Reich, I.G. Farben was separated back into a series of smaller companies, among these Bayer AG. As a matter of fact, Fritz ter Meer was the man directly responsible for running the chemical plant in Buna near Auschwitz. After the war, he was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. In 1956, after his release, he was made the head of the supervisory board of Bayer.
So what is Bayer up to these days, more than 50 years later?
I guess some things never change.
Please consider this the next time you are shopping for some aspirin.
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