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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>[Short version of this email]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories" title="Miles Laboratories">Miles Laboratories</a> and its subsidiaries <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Miles Canada (page does not exist)">Miles Canada</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories" title="Cutter Laboratories">Cutter Laboratories</a> (along with a product line including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer" title=Alka-Seltzer>Alka-Seltzer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstones_chewable_vitamins" title="Flintstones chewable vitamins">Flintstones vitamins</a> and One-A-Day vitamins, and Cutter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_repellent" title="Insect repellent">insect repellent</a>). In 1994, Bayer AG purchased Sterling WinthropI's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug" title="Over-the-counter drug">over-the-counter</a> drug business from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithKline_Beecham" title="SmithKline Beecham">SmithKline Beecham</a> 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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>[The longer version with background and citations that explains the reason for my request follows below.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Last night I watched a PBS show on the commercial development and marketing of aspirin around the end turn of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. The work was initiated and directed by a brilliant Jewish chemist, Dr. Arthur Eichengrün<span style='color:blue'> </span>, in Germany. At the time the company was known as Bayer – the surname of one of the original owners. Thanks to <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119266/"> recent research this by Dr Walter Sneader of Strathclyde University</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> the previous anti-Semitic error of attributing this “invention” to a man named Hoffman</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> has been corrected. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr. Eichengrün<span style='color:blue'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>left the company in 1908 to pursue an independent career. In the years prior to World War II Dr. Eichengrün<span style='color:blue'> </span>was recognized as a brilliant and inventive fellow who (theoretically) enjoyed the respect of business and intellectual German communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Post WWI Bayer Company changed its name to I.G. Farben. Does the name sound familiar? I hope it does. Following WWII the <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_igfarben08.htm">significant managers of I.G. Farben were charged with war crimes</a> (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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schmitz_%28industrialist%29" title="Hermann Schmitz (industrialist)">Hermann Schmitz</a>, became a member of the supervisory board for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank" title="Deutsche Bank">Deutsche Bank</a> in Berlin and honorary chairman of the supervisory board of Rheinische Stahlwerke AG <sup id="cite_ref-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Schnitzler" title="Georg von Schnitzler">Georg von Schnitzler</a>, served as president of the Deutsch-Ibero-Amerikanische Gesellschaft <sup id="cite_ref-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup>supervisory board member of several firms <sup id="cite_ref-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ambros" title="Otto Ambros">Otto Ambros</a>, held seats on supervisory boards <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemie_Gr%C3%BCnenthal" title="Chemie Grünenthal">Chemie Grünenthal</a> (being active during the Contergan scandal), Feldmühle, and Telefunken, and worked as an economic consultant in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim" title=Mannheim>Mannheim</a> <sup id="cite_ref-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%BCtefisch" title="Heinrich Bütefisch">Heinrich Bütefisch</a>, 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.<sup id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ilgner" title="Max Ilgner">Max Ilgner</a>, became the chairman of the executive board of a chemistry firm in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug" title=Zug>Zug</a> <sup id="cite_ref-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Oster" title="Heinrich Oster">Heinrich Oster</a>, became a member of the supervisory board of Gelsenberg AG.<sup id="cite_ref-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Some of the people who were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquitted" title=Acquitted>acquitted</a> (what a miscarriage of justice) and later became leaders in post war-companies include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Gajewski" title="Fritz Gajewski">Fritz Gajewski</a>, became chairman of the board of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamit_Nobel" title="Dynamit Nobel">Dynamit Nobel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schneider_%28chemist%29" title="Christian Schneider (chemist)">Christian Schneider (chemist)</a>, became a member of the supervisory boards of Süddeutsche Kalkstickstoff-Werke AG Trostberg and Rheinauer Holzhydrolyse-GmbH, Mannheim <sup id="cite_ref-27"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_K%C3%BChne" title="Hans Kühne">Hans Kühne</a>, held a position at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" title=Bayer>Bayer</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld" title=Elberfeld>Elberfeld</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lautenschl%C3%A4ger" title="Carl Lautenschläger">Carl Lautenschläger</a>, became a research associate at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" title=Bayer>Bayer</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld" title=Elberfeld>Elberfeld</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Rudolf_Mann" title="Wilhelm Rudolf Mann">Wilhelm Rudolf Mann</a>, resumed his position as head of pharmaceutical sales at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" title=Bayer>Bayer</a>. He also presided over the GfK, Society for Consumer Research, and the Foreign Trade Committee of the BDI, Federation of German Industry.<sup id="cite_ref-30"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wurster" title="Carl Wurster">Carl Wurster</a>, resumed his position of chairman of the managing board, and was the major force behind the reestablishment of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASF" title=BASF>BASF</a>. After retiring, he continued to be active as a member and chairman of supervisory boards in companies such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH" title="Robert Bosch GmbH">Bosch</a>, Degussa (later being acquired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAG_Aktiengesellschaft" title="RAG Aktiengesellschaft">RAG</a> <sup id="cite_ref-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup>), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz" title=Allianz>Allianz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Gattineau" title="Heinrich Gattineau">Heinrich Gattineau</a>, beame a member of the board and supervisory council of WASAG Chemie-AG, and Mitteldeutsche Sprengstoff-Werke GmbH <sup id="cite_ref-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Which brings me to the reason for this email (and arguably, more post WWII business history than you ever want to know). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“In 1978, Bayer purchased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories" title="Miles Laboratories">Miles Laboratories</a> and its subsidiaries <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Miles Canada (page does not exist)">Miles Canada</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories" title="Cutter Laboratories">Cutter Laboratories</a> (along with a product line including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer" title=Alka-Seltzer>Alka-Seltzer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstones_chewable_vitamins" title="Flintstones chewable vitamins">Flintstones vitamins</a> and One-A-Day vitamins, and Cutter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_repellent" title="Insect repellent">insect repellent</a>). In 1994, Bayer AG purchased Sterling WinthropI's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug" title="Over-the-counter drug">over-the-counter</a> drug business from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithKline_Beecham" title="SmithKline Beecham">SmithKline Beecham</a> 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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer</a> . 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>