[Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
Paul Rumelhart
godshatter at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 19 20:33:21 PDT 2014
That was an interesting read, thank you. From the perspective of a
person with libertarian and anarchist leanings, I would say that both
the Left and the Right (at least in this country) are statists, meaning
that they are proponents of a powerful state to enforce their
ideologies. This is in direct confrontation with those of us who think
that individuals should take care of what they can themselves and that
the government should be viewed as a necessary evil rather than as our
savior, and be minimized as much as possible.
Elections in this country are between two power-hungry groups that can
only agree that a high tide floats all boats and therefore grabbing more
power for themselves is advantageous. That's what it looks like to me,
anyway.
Paul
On 06/18/2014 09:29 AM, Dan Carscallen wrote:
>
> Perhaps Roger was thinking more along the lines of what Jean-Pierre
> Faye proposed with the "Horseshoe Theory", where the extreme left
> (communism -- government seizing control of all means of production)
> is closer to the extreme right (fascism - the government seizes
> absolute control of economic activity) than either care to admit.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
>
> DC
>
> *From:*vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] *On Behalf Of *Gier, Nicholas
> (ngier at uidaho.edu)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:01 AM
> *To:* lfalen
> *Cc:* viz
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> Why do you continue to perpetuate the falsehood that the Nazis were
> left-wing, when the fascist state was based on the collusion of big
> corporations and the state instead of the Communist and doctrinaire
> (not Social Democratic) socialist abolition of private enterprise? Yet
> another right-wing fantasy that should be put to rest forever.
>
> Nick
>
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>
> *From:*vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> <mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com> <vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> <mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com>> on behalf of lfalen
> <lfalen at turbonet.com <mailto:lfalen at turbonet.com>>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:04 PM
> *To:* Rosemary Huskey; Paul Rumelhart; Scott Dredge
> *Cc:* vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
>
> Thanks Rose for the history. There was also a lot phycology here. A
> lot of people either did not know or chose not to know the full extent
> of the holocaust. There were a few who did and were courageous in
> helping the Jews. People like Raul Wallenberg and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
> lost there lives for their efforts. In the history of oppression
> there have been some that had a change of heart. John Newton was at
> one time the Captain of a slave ship. He wound up helping William
> Willberforce end slavery in England. He wrote Amazing Grace. Major
> Ned Wynkoop started out as commander of Fort Lyons by giving the
> order to shoot all Indians. He became and friend of the Indians and
> became hated for condemning the massacre at Sand Creek.
>
> As for wars being started by the far right, sometimes this is true,
> but the far let is equally guilty. The Nazis an the Russian Communists
> were left wing.
>
> Roger
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
> From: "Rosemary Huskey" <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
> <mailto:donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>>
> To: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com
> <mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com>>, "Scott Dredge"
> <scooterd408 at hotmail.com <mailto:scooterd408 at hotmail.com>>
> Date: 06/17/14 20:28:26
>
> Grasping the full horror of the Holocaust, (or in our own neck of the
> woods roughly sixty years before Hitler came to power, our treatment
> of indigenous people where, unequivocally, genocide is exactly the
> accurate term to describe interactions between white and natives), is
> beyond our understanding. IMO the causal foundation in German culture
> was fifteen hundred years of Christianity with its unending
> scapegoating of Jewish people and Judaism. The Roman Catholic church
> perpetuated, amongst many vicious lies, claims of blood libel. The
> grievous words of Martin Luther in The Jews & Their Lies, published
> 1543
> <https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html>
> are repulsive. This continual propaganda was an inherent part of
> German's life. Fantasies of what we might or might not have done in
> 1939 Germany are pointless - we would all want to be Righteous
> Gentiles (the fortunate ones who weren't caught by the Gestapo),
> wouldn't we?.
>
> Luckily, we are still (and will be forever) offered an embarrassment
> of riches to speak up for the disenfranchised, to protect the
> vulnerable, and educated ourselves to recognize the "bad guys" who are
> motivated by power, greed, and their own pathological inadequacies.
> Ignorant, belligerent jackasses are rarely to be found on the side of
> the angels. Religious fanatics with special exclusive "covenants" and
> claims of unique understanding about otherworldly "truths" are never,
> ever, to be admired or listened to. Ultra-right politicians have
> started more wars than I can shake a stick at. Those who target groups
> of people for ridicule and to bully are malignant and potentially
> dangerous. We all know the red flags, we don't have to look very hard
> to find them in our community and certainly in our state, and mostly,
> we try not to get involved. That, Paul, is Germany 1931. And, frankly,
> Moscow, Idaho 2014. It's only a matter of degree.
>
> Rose
>
> As to BMW see the article below. I can not imagine a single major
> German industry that operated during WWII and continues in business
> today that was not intimately allied with the Nazi party. It's who
> they were and who, in many cases, they remain today.
>
> /BMW Owners Finally Admit Nazi Past
> <http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/09/bmw-owners-finally-admit-nazi-past/>/
>
> By Bertel Schmitt
> <http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/author/bertel-schmitt/> on September
> 29, 2011
>
> Thttp://images.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/09/450x253xskavelaborers-450x253.jpg.pagespeed.ic.YsLKAw9UA0.jpg
> <http://images.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/09/skavelaborers.jpg>
>
> Digsby
>
> IM, Email, and Social Networks in one easy to use application!
>
> http://digsby.com
>
> The Quandt family, major shareholder of BMW, and one of the richest in
> Germany, is finally and belatedly confessing to its Nazi-past.
> Patriarch Günther Quandt was an early member of the Nazi party, he
> joined 1933, after Hitler's election. During the Third Reich, Quandt
> company empire was kept running by more than 50,000 slave laborers.
> Many businesses that were taken away from Jewish owners ended up in
> the hands of Quandt. He even had odd family ties with the Nazi elite.
> His second wife Magda, which he had married when she was half his age,
> divorced him eight years later, only to marry propaganda minister
> Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as a witness. While other German
> carmakers, first and foremost Volkswagen, came to terms with their
> past, the owners of BMW denied it until recently. When the German
> Forced Labor Compensation Program was established, the family declined
> to make a contribution, claiming they had no reason to do so.
>
> In 2007, a documentary aired on German TV
> <http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2007/10/german-documentary-bmws-quandts-tied-to-slave-labor/>
> and linked the family to the Nazis. The film revealed not only the
> slave laborers, but also that Günther Quandt had convinced Nazi
> contacts to send a Belgian competitor to a concentration camp after he
> refused to sell his company to Quandt. The documentary created only a
> minor scandal in Germany, because Quandt's Nazi past had been known. A
> family spokesman said the allegations were "not incisively new."
> However, the Quandts had up to then steadfastly denied all allegations.
>
> The documentary prompted the Quandt family to do what other German
> companies had done many decades ago: Employ a historian to examine the
> family's history during the Third Reich.
>
> A Bonn historian received access to the family archives and concluded
> in his 1,200 page report that "the Quandts were linked inseparably
> with the crimes of the Nazis. The family patriarch was part of the
> regime."
>
> Hundreds of slave laborers died or were executed. At the end of the
> war, Günther Quandt's former wife Magda killed her six children in the
> /Führerbunker/, then committed suicide with her husband Goebbels.
>
> *From:*Paul Rumelhart [mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:49 AM
> *To:* Scott Dredge; Rosemary Huskey; viz
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
>
> It makes me wonder what I would do if I were an executive in a German
> company in that time period. BMW is an example I've thought about
> before, since I own a BMW motorcycle. They made airplane engines and
> motorcycles for the war effort, and had their factories bombed out of
> existence pretty much during the war. They were forced afterward for a
> few years to make pots and pans. Now I don't know if the board
> members of IG Farben were enthusiastic or not when this all happened,
> but I think it's far easier to judge them based on hindsight. Did
> they make a deal with the devil and do what they had to do to
> survive? Or did they jump on it as a chance to help rid the world of
> jews? I don't know. There is also the concept that they may not have
> known how bad things really were until they were in too deep.
>
> Interesting to think about. Also, if you are going to boycott Bayer,
> don't forget to boycott BASF too, since they were one of the firms
> that merged to become IG Farben (at least according to Wikipedia).
>
> Paul
>
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>
> *From:*Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=scooterd408 at hotmail.com>>
> *To:* Rosemary Huskey <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>>;
> viz <vision2020 at moscow.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=vision2020 at moscow.com>>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:07 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
>
> Considering that there are probably a total of zero (0) workers now
> employed with these companies that had anything to do with the WWII
> atrocities, this certainly points to another justification for
> corporate personhood (Citizen's United). The unfortunate reality (and
> one that horrifies me) is that human beings for the most part tend to
> behave in a manner in which they are brought up. For all of the moral
> outrage regarding slave owners, nazis, etc., there but for the grace
> of God go I. I'm grateful I wasn't raised in such an environment that
> would have resulted in me being prone to oppressing others were I in a
> position of power to do so.
>
> -Scott
>
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>
> From: donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>
> To: scooterd408 at hotmail.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=scooterd408 at hotmail.com>;
> vision2020 at moscow.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:59:28 -0700
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> Whether people want to buy Bayer products (or products from the
> American corporations they own) is a personal decision. I won't. The
> reason that I put this on V2020 is simple. I devoted a significant
> portion of my academic training on Holocaust studies and yet, I had no
> idea that Bayer was the original name of I.G. Farben. And, I
> certainly didn't know that I.G. Farben, as a corporate name, was
> replaced by a rebirth of Bayer I.A.
>
> I suppose that most of the V2020 readers are aware that many of the
> corporations that were alive and well before and during the Nazi era
> in Germany continue to thrive today. The following article might
> contain some surprises for them. I don't even want to address the
> former war criminals/Nazi scientists that we quickly and graciously
> invited into this country in beat the Russians to their brains. A Song
> from Tom Lehrer comes to mind. It makes me ill to think that someone
> who should have been in jail for the rest of his life was welcomed to
> this country as a intellectual colleague instead of the monstrous
> criminal that he was.
>
> My point is this: Bayer did not make reparations despite the fact that
> it was part of the corporate punishment. That's not okay with me. I
> am dismayed that major corporations (then and now) continue to
> exercise power and privilege over people who are powerless to stop
> them or to insist that they are held responsible for the havoc they
> inflict on others. There is precious little any of us can do about it
> but at least if we are aware of who they were/are we can make choices
> about using their products. How we stand on these issues today may
> reflect where would have stood in 1939.
>
> Rose
>
> 11 Companies That Surprisingly Collaborated With the Nazis
> <http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/11_Companies_That_Surprisingly_Collaborated_With_the_Nazis>written
> by Sam Greenspan
>
> I saw this article
> <http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2008/09/10/2008-09-10_giants_and_jets_fans_join_uproar_over_st.html>
> today; it's about a controversy over the German insurance company
> Allianz buying the naming rights to the new New York Giants and Jets
> football stadium.
>
> That's controversial because Allianz has very famous Nazi ties -- they
> insured Auschwitz, their CEO was one of Hitler's advisers, and, during
> the Holocaust, instead of paying life insurance benefits to Jews, they
> sent that money straight to the Nazis.
>
> Jewish groups don't want Allianz getting the naming rights to the new
> Meadowlands. Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defanation League, says,
> quote, "It would be an insult. It's putting their name in lights for
> generations to come."
>
> Since World War Two ended, Allianz has officially apologized for its
> role in the Holocaust and has paid several million dollars in
> restitution. Which brings me to a larger point here: At what point
> should we say to Nazi collaborating companies, "OK. You've apologized,
> you've paid, none of your current employees worked with the Nazis,
> it's time to move on"?
>
> Because there are a TON of companies that worked with the Nazis. Way
> more than the Allianz and the other 11 I'm about to talk about here.
> They've all apologized. A lot have paid restitution. Two generations
> have passed.
>
> I won't comment on whether I think people should forgive them...
> boycott them... continue to patronize them, but begrudgingly... or
> continue to patronize them with statements like, "Wow, Allianz, your
> insurance is SO good, we're SO impressed with what you're doing. And
> if it wasn't for the 800 other, better insurance companies out there,
> we'd TOTALLY sign up with you."
>
> That's up to you. I'm just puttin' the information out there. Here are
> 11 companies that you may not realize collaborated with the Nazis.
>
> 1.
>
> http://www.11points.com/images/nazicollablogos.jpg
> The 12 Nazi collaborating companies featured in this article.
>
> 2. *Kodak.* During World War Two, Kodak's German branch used slave
> laborers from concentration camps. Several of their other European
> branches did heavy business with the Nazi government.
>
> And Wilhelm Keppler, one of Hitler's top economic advisers, had
> deep ties in Kodak. When Nazism began, Keppler advised Kodak and
> several other U.S. companies that they'd benefit by firing all of
> their Jewish employees. (Source: The Nation
> <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/friedman>)
> 3. *Hugo Boss.* In the 1930s, Hugo Boss started making Nazi uniforms.
> The reason: Hugo Boss himself had joined the Nazi party, and got a
> contract to make the Hitler Youth, storm trooper and SS uniforms.
>
> That was a huge boon for Hugo Boss... he got the contract just
> eight years after founding his company... and that infusion of
> business helped take the company to another level.
>
> The Nazi uniform manufacturing went so well that Hugo Boss ended
> up needing to bring in slave laborers in Poland and France to help
> out at the factory.
>
> In 1997, Hugo's son, Siegfried Boss, told an Austrian news
> magazine, "Of course my father belonged to the Nazi party. But who
> didn't belong back then?" (Source: New York Times
> <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E4DF153FF936A2575BC0A961958260>)
>
> 4. *Volkswagen.* Ferdinand Porsche, the man behind Volkswagen and
> Porsche, met with Hitler in 1934, to discuss the creation of a
> "people's car." (That's the English translation of Volkswagen.)
>
> Hitler told Porsche to make the car with a streamlined shape,
> "like a beetle." And that's the genesis of the Volkswagen
> Beetle... it wasn't just designed for the Nazis, Hitler NAMED it.
>
> During World War Two, it's believed that as many as four out of
> every five workers at Volkswagen's plants were slave laborers.
> Ferdinand Porsche even had a direct connection to Heinrich
> Himmler, one of the leaders of the SS, to directly request slaves
> from Auschwitz. (Source: The Straight Dope
> <http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1095/did-krups-braun-and-mercedes-benz-make-nazi-concentration-camp-ovens>)
>
> 5. *Bayer.* During the Holocaust, a German company called IG Farben
> manufactured the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazi gas chambers. They
> also funded and helped with Josef Mengele's "experiments" on
> concentration camp prisoners.
>
> IG Farben is the company that turned the single largest profit
> from work with the Nazis. After the War, the company was broken
> up. Bayer was one of its divisions, and went on to become its own
> company.
>
> Oh... and aspirin was founded by a Bayer employee, Arthur
> Eichengrun. But Eichengrun was Jewish, and Bayer didn't want to
> admit that a Jewish guy created the one product that keeps their
> company in business. So, to this day, Bayer officially gives
> credit to Felix Hoffman, a nice Aryan man, for inventing aspirin.
> (Source: Alliance for Human Research Protection
> <http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27a.php>, Pharmaceutical
> Achievers
> <http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/asp/asp60.htm>)
>
> 6. *Siemens.* Siemens took slave laborers during the Holocaust and
> had them help construct the gas chambers that would kill them and
> their families. Good people over there.
>
> Siemens also has the single biggest post-Holocaust moment of
> insensitivity of any of the companies on this list. In 2001, they
> tried to trademark the word "Zyklon" (which means "cyclone" in
> German) to become the name a new line of products... including a
> line of gas ovens.
>
> Zyklon, of course, being the name of the poison gas used in their
> gas chambers during the Holocaust.
>
> A week later, after several watchdog groups appropriately freaked
> out, Siemens withdrew the application. They said they never drew
> the connection between the Zyklon B gas used during the Holocaust
> and their proposed Zyklon line of products. (Source: BBC
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2233890.stm>)
> 7. *Coca-Cola, specifically Fanta.* Coke played both sides during
> World War Two... they supported the American troops but also kept
> making soda for the Nazis. Then, in 1941, the German branch of
> Coke ran out of syrup, and couldn't get any from America because
> of wartime restrictions.
>
> So they invented a new drink, specifically for the Nazis: A
> fruit-flavored soda called Fanta.
>
> That's right: Long before Fanta was associated with a bunch of
> exotic women singing a god-awful jingle, it was the unofficial
> drink of Nazi Germany. (Source: New Statesman
> <http://www.newstatesman.com/200405240002>)
> 8. *Ford.* Henry Ford is a pretty legendary anti-Semite, so this
> makes sense. He was Hitler's most famous foreign backer. On his
> 75th birthday, in 1938, Ford received a Nazi medal, designed for
> "distinguished foreigners."
>
> He profiteered off both sides of the War -- he was producing
> vehicles for the Nazis AND for the Allies.
>
> I'm wondering if, in a completely misguided piece of logic,
> Allianz points to the Detroit Lions giving Ford the naming rights
> to their stadium as a reason why they should get the rights to the
> Meadowlands. (Source: Reformed Theology
> <http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_06.htm>)
> 9. *Standard Oil.* The Luftwaffe needed tetraethyl lead gas in order
> to get their planes off the ground. Standard Oil was one of only
> three companies that could manufacture that type of fuel. So they did.
>
> Without them, the German air force never could've even gotten
> their planes off the ground.
>
> When Standard Oil was dissolved as a monopoly, it led to
> ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, all of which are still around today.
> (But fortunately, their parent company's past decision to make
> incredible profits off of war have not carried on.) (Source: MIT's
> Thistle <http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html>)
> 10. *Chase bank.* A lot of banks sided with the Nazis during World War
> Two. Chase is the most prominent.
>
> They froze European Jewish customers' accounts and were extremely
> cooperative in providing banking service to Germany. (Source: New
> York Times
> <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5DE123EF934A35752C1A96E958260>)
>
> 11. *IBM.* IBM custom-build machines for the Nazis that they could use
> to track everything... from oil supplies to train schedules into
> death camps to Jewish bank accounts to individual Holocaust
> victims themselves.
>
> In September of 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, the "New York
> Times" reported that three million Jews were going to be
> "immediately removed" from Poland and were likely going to be
> "exterminat[ed]."
>
> IBM's reaction? An internal memo saying that, due to that
> "situation", they really needed to step up production on
> high-speed alphabetizing equipment. (Source: CNet
> <http://news.cnet.com/Probing-IBMs-Nazi-connection/2009-1082_3-269157.html>)
>
> 12. *Random House publishing.* Random House's parent company,
> Bertelsmann A.G., worked for the Nazis... they published Hitler
> propaganda, and a book called "Sterilization and Euthanasia: A
> Contribution to Applied Christian Ethics".
>
> Bertelsmann still owns and operates several companies. I picked
> Random House because they drew controversy in 1997 when they
> decided to expand the definition of Nazi in Webster's Dictionary.
>
> Eleven years ago, they added the colloquial, softened definition
> of "a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a
> specified activity, practice, etc." (Think "Soup Nazi".)
>
> The Anti-Defamation League called that expanded definition
> offensive... especially when added by a company with Nazi ties...
> they said it, quote, "trivializes and denies the murderous intent
> and actions of the Nazi regime... it also cheapens the language by
> allowing people to reach for a quick word fix... [and] lends a
> helping hand to those whose aim is to prove that the Nazis were
> really not such terrible people." (Source: New York Observer
> <http://www.observer.com/node/40950>, ADL
> <http://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2881_52.asp>)
>
> This list was originally published on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at
> 06:00:00 PM under the category News & Politics
> <http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/>..
>
>
>
>
> *From:*Scott Dredge [mailto:scooterd408 at hotmail.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=scooterd408 at hotmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Monday, June 16, 2014 6:40 PM
> *To:* Rosemary Huskey; viz
> *Subject:* RE: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
>
> What is the end goal on this...don't buy Bayer A. G. products until
> they apologize (again) and/or pay fines (again) and/or damages (again)?
>
> Seems like there was already due process on this based on <All things
> considered, they got off with wrist slaps. The corporation was
> ordered to pay reparations to the surviving members of the thousands
> of I.G. Farben slave laborers forced to work under the usual heinous
> conditions employed by Nazi collaborators. After their all-too-brief
> prison sentences the following jackasses bounced right on back to
> their old positions of power and authority.>
>
> If this were a US criminal case, they wrongdoers would be protected by
> double jeopardy. Of course, it's not so all bets are off.
>
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>
> From: donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
> <index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=donaldrose at cpcinternet.com>
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
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> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:38:16 -0700
> Subject: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin
>
> [Short version of this email]
> Please do not buy medications or over the counter products from Bayer
> A.G. (a German based corporation) or its U.S. based subsidiaries
> purchased "In 1978, Bayer purchased Miles Laboratories
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories> and its subsidiaries
> Miles Canada
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1>
> and Cutter Laboratories
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories> (along with a
> product line including Alka-Seltzer
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer>, Flintstones vitamins
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstones_chewable_vitamins> and
> One-A-Day vitamins, and Cutter insect repellent
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_repellent>). In 1994, Bayer AG
> purchased Sterling WinthropI's over-the-counter
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug> drug business
> from SmithKline Beecham
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithKline_Beecham> and merged it with
> Miles Laboratories, thereby reacquiring the U.S. and Canadian
> trademark rights to "Bayer" and the Bayer cross, as well as the
> ownership of the Aspirin trademark in Canada." Source:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
>
> [The longer version with background and citations that explains the
> reason for my request follows below.]
>
> Last night I watched a PBS show on the commercial development and
> marketing of aspirin around the end turn of the 19^th century. The
> work was initiated and directed by a brilliant Jewish chemist, Dr.
> Arthur Eichengrün, in Germany. At the time the company was known as
> Bayer - the surname of one of the original owners. Thanks to recent
> research this by Dr Walter Sneader of Strathclyde University
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119266/> the previous
> anti-Semitic error of attributing this "invention" to a man named
> Hoffman has been corrected.
>
> Dr. Eichengrünleft the company in 1908 to pursue an independent
> career. In the years prior to World War II Dr. Eichengrünwas
> recognized as a brilliant and inventive fellow who (theoretically)
> enjoyed the respect of business and intellectual German communities.
>
> Post WWI Bayer Company changed its name to I.G. Farben. Does the name
> sound familiar? I hope it does. Following WWII the significant
> managers of I.G. Farben were charged with war crimes
> <http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_igfarben08.htm>
> (see below). All things considered, they got off with wrist slaps.
> The corporation was ordered to pay reparations to the surviving
> members of the thousands of I.G. Farben slave laborers forced to work
> under the usual heinous conditions employed by Nazi collaborators.
> After their all-too-brief prison sentences the following jackasses
> bounced right on back to their old positions of power and authority.
> Please click on the names of the men below. Yes, it will take a
> small amount of your time to read about these unrepentant monsters,
> but you have the luxury of being able to educate yourself - a gift
> denied millions of others (including American service men and women in
> the European theatre) who died because of them and their company's
> products.
>
> For example:
>
> Hermann Schmitz
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schmitz_%28industrialist%29>,
> became a member of the supervisory board for the Deutsche Bank
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank> in Berlin and honorary
> chairman of the supervisory board of Rheinische Stahlwerke AG ^[19]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-19>
>
> Georg von Schnitzler
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Schnitzler>, served as
> president of the Deutsch-Ibero-Amerikanische Gesellschaft ^[20]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-20> supervisory
> board member of several firms ^[21]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-21>
>
> Otto Ambros <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ambros>, held seats on
> supervisory boards Chemie Grünenthal
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemie_Gr%C3%BCnenthal> (being active
> during the Contergan scandal), Feldmühle, and Telefunken, and worked
> as an economic consultant in Mannheim
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim> ^[22]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-22>
>
> Heinrich Bütefisch
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%BCtefisch>, became a
> member of the supervisory boards for Deutsche Gasolin AG, Feldmühle,
> and Papier- und Zellstoffwerke AG, and consultied with Ruhrchemie AG
> Oberhausen and subsequently joining its supervisory board.^[23]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-23>
>
> Max Ilgner <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ilgner>, became the
> chairman of the executive board of a chemistry firm in Zug
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug> ^[24]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-24>
>
> Heinrich Oster <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Oster>, became a
> member of the supervisory board of Gelsenberg AG.^[25]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-25>
>
> Some of the people who were acquitted
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquitted> (what a miscarriage of
> justice) and later became leaders in post war-companies include:
>
> Fritz Gajewski <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Gajewski>, became
> chairman of the board of Dynamit Nobel
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamit_Nobel>.^[26]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-26>
>
> Christian Schneider (chemist)
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schneider_%28chemist%29>,
> became a member of the supervisory boards of Süddeutsche
> Kalkstickstoff-Werke AG Trostberg and Rheinauer Holzhydrolyse-GmbH,
> Mannheim ^[27] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-27>
>
> Hans Kühne <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_K%C3%BChne>, held a
> position at Bayer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer> Elberfeld
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld>.^[28]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-28>
>
> Carl Lautenschläger
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lautenschl%C3%A4ger>, became a
> research associate at Bayer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer>
> Elberfeld <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld>.^[29]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-29>
>
> Wilhelm Rudolf Mann
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Rudolf_Mann>, resumed his
> position as head of pharmaceutical sales at Bayer
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer>. He also presided over the GfK,
> Society for Consumer Research, and the Foreign Trade Committee of the
> BDI, Federation of German Industry.^[30]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-30>
>
> Carl Wurster <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wurster>, resumed his
> position of chairman of the managing board, and was the major force
> behind the reestablishment of BASF
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASF>. After retiring, he continued to
> be active as a member and chairman of supervisory boards in companies
> such as Bosch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH>,
> Degussa (later being acquired by RAG
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAG_Aktiengesellschaft> ^[31]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-31> ), and Allianz
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz>.^[32]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-32>
>
> Heinrich Gattineau <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Gattineau>,
> beame a member of the board and supervisory council of WASAG
> Chemie-AG, and Mitteldeutsche Sprengstoff-Werke GmbH ^[33]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-33>
>
> Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben
>
> I.G. Farben was reorganized as an empty holding company in order to
> avoid paying the ordered reparations to the slave labor survivors used
> by their company. The litigation, which lasted over sixty years
> effectively allowed the corporation to dodge essentially all payments.
> I.G. Farben reverted to its pre World War I name, Bayer A.G, and has
> continued to thrive worldwide.
>
> Which brings me to the reason for this email (and arguably, more post
> WWII business history than you ever want to know).
>
> "In 1978, Bayer purchased Miles Laboratories
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories> and its subsidiaries
> Miles Canada
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1>
> and Cutter Laboratories
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories> (along with a
> product line including Alka-Seltzer
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer>, Flintstones vitamins
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstones_chewable_vitamins> and
> One-A-Day vitamins, and Cutter insect repellent
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_repellent>). In 1994, Bayer AG
> purchased Sterling WinthropI's over-the-counter
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug> drug business
> from SmithKline Beecham
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithKline_Beecham> and merged it with
> Miles Laboratories, thereby reacquiring the U.S. and Canadian
> trademark rights to "Bayer" and the Bayer cross, as well as the
> ownership of the Aspirin trademark in Canada."
> Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer . This source also
> includes recent law suits against Bayer A.G. and its subsidiaries -
> demonstrating that I.G. Farben philosophy (in all but name) is alive
> and well in 2014.
> If I.G. Farben corporate officers had not been reinstated or had not
> easily found other prominent corporate positions in Germany after
> World War II, if the company (or the men) had accepted responsibility
> for their monstrous behavior and allegiance to the Nazi party and
> insisted that their corporation(s) pay reparations we might accept
> that they felt some kind of guilt and responsibility for the
> Holocaust. They didn't - and as recently as 2003 Farben I.G. dba Bayer
> A.G. were still tying up unpaid reparations in senseless litigation.
> However, they were and remained unapologetic Nazi collaborators that
> enriched themselves before, during, and after WWII.
> There is nothing we can do about the deaths of millions of people
> seventy + years ago. There is something we can do now. The lack of
> contrition of this corporation deserves a response even at this late date.
> I urge you not to buy or use products from Bayer A.G. or the
> subsidiaries listed above. It is a small, indeed insignificant, stand
> when considered against the global reach of the corporation. But it
> is a matter of conscience that we can easily adopt. And, we can
> encourage others in our various circles of friends, family, and
> co-workers to stand with us in opposition against this wretched
> corporation.
> Rose Huskey
>
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