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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
On 06/18/2014 09:29 AM, Dan Carscallen wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">DC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Gier, Nicholas (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ngier@uidaho.edu">ngier@uidaho.edu</a>)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> lfalen<br>
<b>Cc:</b> viz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Hi
Roger,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>>
on behalf of lfalen <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rosemary Huskey; Paul Rumelhart; Scott
Dredge<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">Roger<br>
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<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">-----Original
Message-----<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bayer Aspirin<br>
From: "Rosemary Huskey" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a>><br>
To: "Paul Rumelhart" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>>,
"Scott Dredge" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>><br>
Date: 06/17/14 20:28:26<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html">The
Jews & Their Lies, published 1543</a>
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?. </span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">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.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">Rose</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828">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.</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span
style="font-size:24.0pt;color:#282828"><a
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href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/09/bmw-owners-finally-admit-nazi-past/"
title="Permalink for BMW Owners Finally
Admit Nazi Past">BMW Owners Finally Admit
Nazi Past</a></span></i><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#282828">By <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/author/bertel-schmitt/"
title="Posts by Bertel Schmitt">Bertel
Schmitt</a> on September 29, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color:blue">T</span><span
style="color:#282828"> <a
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title=""Polish slave laborers. Picture
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style="color:#282828">IM, Email, and Social
Networks in one easy to use application!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#282828">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#282828"><a
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href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2007/10/german-documentary-bmws-quandts-tied-to-slave-labor/">In
2007, a documentary aired on German TV</a>
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#282828">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#282828">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."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="color:#282828">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 <i>Führerbunker</i>,
then committed suicide with her husband
Goebbels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#282828">From:</span></b><span
style="color:#282828"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#282828">Paul
Rumelhart [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:49
AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott Dredge; Rosemary Huskey;
viz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Bayer
Aspirin</span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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).</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Paul</span><span
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span
style="color:#282828"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Scott
Dredge <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> Rosemary Huskey <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a>>;
viz <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 17, 2014
9:07 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Bayer
Aspirin</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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.<br>
<br>
-Scott</span><span
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">From:
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href="index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donaldrose@cpcinternet.com</a><br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="index.html?_n%5Bp%5D%5Bmain%5D=win.main.tree&_n%5Bp%5D%5Bcontent%5D=mail.compose&to=scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>;
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Subject: RE: [Vision2020]
Bayer Aspirin<br>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014
21:59:28 -0700</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Hi
Scott,</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span
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style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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.</span><span
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style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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. </span><span
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
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href="http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/11_Companies_That_Surprisingly_Collaborated_With_the_Nazis"
target="_blank">11
Companies That
Surprisingly
Collaborated With the
Nazis<br>
</a>written by Sam
Greenspan <br>
<br>
I saw <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2008/09/10/2008-09-10_giants_and_jets_fans_join_uproar_over_st.html"
target="_blank">this
article</a> 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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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."<br>
<br>
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"?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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."<br>
<br>
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.</span><span
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The 12 Nazi
collaborating
companies featured in
this article.<o:p></o:p></p>
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start="2" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Kodak.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/friedman"
target="_blank">The
Nation</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Hugo
Boss.</span></b> <span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E4DF153FF936A2575BC0A961958260"
target="_blank">New York
Times</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Volkswagen.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1095/did-krups-braun-and-mercedes-benz-make-nazi-concentration-camp-ovens"
target="_blank">The
Straight Dope</a>)</span>
<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Bayer.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27a.php"
target="_blank">Alliance
for Human Research
Protection</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/asp/asp60.htm"
target="_blank">Pharmaceutical
Achievers</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Siemens.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Zyklon, of course, being
the name of the poison gas
used in their gas chambers
during the Holocaust.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2233890.stm"
target="_blank">BBC</a>)</span>
<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Coca-Cola,
specifically Fanta.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
So they invented a new
drink, specifically for
the Nazis: A
fruit-flavored soda called
Fanta.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200405240002"
target="_blank">New
Statesman</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Ford.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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."<br>
<br>
He profiteered off both
sides of the War -- he was
producing vehicles for the
Nazis AND for the Allies.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_06.htm"
target="_blank">Reformed
Theology</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Standard
Oil.</span></b> <span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
Without them, the German
air force never could've
even gotten their planes
off the ground.<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html"
target="_blank">MIT's
Thistle</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Chase
bank.</span></b> <span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">A lot
of banks sided with the
Nazis during World War
Two. Chase is the most
prominent.<br>
<br>
They froze European Jewish
customers' accounts and
were extremely cooperative
in providing banking
service to Germany.
(Source: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5DE123EF934A35752C1A96E958260"
target="_blank">New York
Times</a>)</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">IBM.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
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]."<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.cnet.com/Probing-IBMs-Nazi-connection/2009-1082_3-269157.html"
target="_blank">CNet</a>)</span>
<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="color:black;mso-list:l0
level1
lfo2;background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Random
House publishing.</span></b>
<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">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".<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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".)<br>
<br>
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.observer.com/node/40950"
target="_blank">New York
Observer</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.adl.org/presrele/holna_52/2881_52.asp"
target="_blank">ADL</a>)</span>
<o:p></o:p></li>
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style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">This
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September 11, 2008 at
06:00:00 PM under the
category <a
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href="http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/" target="_blank">News &
Politics</a>..</span><span
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style="background:white"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span
style="color:#282828"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Scott
Dredge [<a
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday,
June 16, 2014 6:40
PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rosemary
Huskey; viz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE:
[Vision2020] Bayer
Aspirin</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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)?<br>
<br>
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.><br>
<br>
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.</span><span
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun
2014 11:38:16 -0700<br>
Subject:
[Vision2020] Bayer
Aspirin</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">[Short
version of this
email]<br>
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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories" target="_blank"
title="Miles
Laboratories">Miles
Laboratories</a>
and its
subsidiaries <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1"
target="_blank"
title="Miles
Canada (page
does not exist)">Miles
Canada</a> and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories"
target="_blank"
title="Cutter
Laboratories">Cutter
Laboratories</a>
(along with a
product line
including <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer" target="_blank"
title="Alka-Seltzer">Alka-Seltzer</a>,
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstones_chewable_vitamins"
target="_blank"
title="Flintstones
chewable
vitamins">Flintstones
vitamins</a> and
One-A-Day
vitamins, and
Cutter <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_repellent" target="_blank"
title="Insect
repellent">insect
repellent</a>).
In 1994, Bayer AG
purchased Sterling
WinthropI's <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug"
target="_blank"
title="Over-the-counter
drug">over-the-counter</a>
drug business from
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithKline_Beecham" target="_blank"
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: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer</a></span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">[The
longer version
with background
and citations that
explains the
reason for my
request follows
below.]</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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><span
style="color:#282828"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">,
in Germany. At
the time the
company was known
as Bayer - the
surname of one of
the original
owners. Thanks to
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119266/"
target="_blank"> recent
research this by
Dr Walter
Sneader of
Strathclyde
University</a>
the previous
anti-Semitic error
of attributing
this "invention"
to a man named
Hoffman has been
corrected. </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Dr.
Eichengrün</span><span
style="color:#282828"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">left
the company in
1908 to pursue an
independent
career. In the
years prior to
World War II Dr.
Eichengrün</span><span
style="color:#282828"> </span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">was
recognized as a
brilliant and
inventive fellow
who
(theoretically)
enjoyed the
respect of
business and
intellectual
German
communities.</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Post
WWI Bayer Company
changed its name
to I.G. Farben.
Does the name
sound familiar? I
hope it does.
Following WWII the
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_igfarben08.htm"
target="_blank">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.</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">For
example:</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Schmitz_%28industrialist%29"
target="_blank"
title="Hermann
Schmitz
(industrialist)">Hermann
Schmitz</a>,
became a member of
the supervisory
board for the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bank"
target="_blank"
title="Deutsche
Bank">Deutsche
Bank</a> in
Berlin and
honorary chairman
of the supervisory
board of
Rheinische
Stahlwerke AG <sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-19"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-19"
target="_blank">[19]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Schnitzler"
target="_blank"
title="Georg von
Schnitzler">Georg
von Schnitzler</a>,
served as
president of the
Deutsch-Ibero-Amerikanische
Gesellschaft <sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-20"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-20"
target="_blank">[20]</a></sup>supervisory board member of several firms
<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-21"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-21"
target="_blank">[21]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ambros"
target="_blank"
title="Otto
Ambros">Otto
Ambros</a>, held
seats on
supervisory boards
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemie_Gr%C3%BCnenthal"
target="_blank"
title="Chemie
Grünenthal">Chemie
Grünenthal</a>
(being active
during the
Contergan
scandal),
Feldmühle, and
Telefunken, and
worked as an
economic
consultant in <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim"
target="_blank"
title="Mannheim">Mannheim</a>
<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-22"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-22"
target="_blank">[22]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%BCtefisch"
target="_blank"
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="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-23"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-23"
target="_blank">[23]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ilgner"
target="_blank"
title="Max
Ilgner">Max
Ilgner</a>,
became the
chairman of the
executive board of
a chemistry firm
in <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug" target="_blank" title="Zug">Zug</a>
<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-24"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-24"
target="_blank">[24]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Oster"
target="_blank"
title="Heinrich
Oster">Heinrich
Oster</a>,
became a member of
the supervisory
board of
Gelsenberg AG.<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-25"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-25"
target="_blank">[25]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Some
of the people who
were <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquitted" target="_blank"
title="Acquitted">acquitted</a>
(what a
miscarriage of
justice) and later
became leaders in
post war-companies
include:</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Gajewski"
target="_blank"
title="Fritz
Gajewski">Fritz
Gajewski</a>,
became chairman of
the board of <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamit_Nobel" target="_blank"
title="Dynamit
Nobel">Dynamit
Nobel</a>.<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-26"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-26"
target="_blank">[26]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schneider_%28chemist%29"
target="_blank"
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="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-27"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-27"
target="_blank">[27]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_K%C3%BChne"
target="_blank"
title="Hans
Kühne">Hans
Kühne</a>, held
a position at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer"
target="_blank"
title="Bayer">Bayer</a>
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld" target="_blank"
title="Elberfeld">Elberfeld</a>.<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-28"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-28"
target="_blank">[28]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lautenschl%C3%A4ger"
target="_blank"
title="Carl
Lautenschläger">Carl
Lautenschläger</a>,
became a research
associate at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" target="_blank" title="Bayer">Bayer</a>
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elberfeld" target="_blank"
title="Elberfeld">Elberfeld</a>.<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-29"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-29"
target="_blank">[29]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Rudolf_Mann"
target="_blank"
title="Wilhelm
Rudolf Mann">Wilhelm
Rudolf Mann</a>,
resumed his
position as head
of pharmaceutical
sales at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" target="_blank" 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="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-30"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-30"
target="_blank">[30]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
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style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wurster"
target="_blank"
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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASF" target="_blank" title="BASF">BASF</a>.
After retiring, he
continued to be
active as a member
and chairman of
supervisory boards
in companies such
as <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH" target="_blank"
title="Robert
Bosch GmbH">Bosch</a>,
Degussa (later
being acquired by
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAG_Aktiengesellschaft"
target="_blank"
title="RAG
Aktiengesellschaft">RAG</a>
<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-31"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-31"
target="_blank">[31]</a></sup>), and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz"
target="_blank"
title="Allianz">Allianz</a>.<sup
id="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-32"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-32"
target="_blank">[32]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Gattineau"
target="_blank"
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="yiv5040903212ecxcite_ref-33"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#cite_note-33"
target="_blank">[33]</a></sup></span><span style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
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style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Source:
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben</a></span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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style="background:white"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">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. </span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="background:white"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Which
brings me to the
reason for this
email (and
arguably, more
post WWII business
history than you
ever want to
know). </span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">"In
1978, Bayer
purchased <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories" target="_blank"
title="Miles
Laboratories">Miles
Laboratories</a>
and its
subsidiaries <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miles_Canada&action=edit&redlink=1"
target="_blank"
title="Miles
Canada (page
does not exist)">Miles
Canada</a> and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories"
target="_blank"
title="Cutter
Laboratories">Cutter
Laboratories</a>
(along with a
product line
including <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer" target="_blank"
title="Alka-Seltzer">Alka-Seltzer</a>,
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintstones_chewable_vitamins"
target="_blank"
title="Flintstones
chewable
vitamins">Flintstones
vitamins</a> and
One-A-Day
vitamins, and
Cutter <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_repellent" target="_blank"
title="Insect
repellent">insect
repellent</a>).
In 1994, Bayer AG
purchased Sterling
WinthropI's <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug"
target="_blank"
title="Over-the-counter
drug">over-the-counter</a>
drug business from
<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmithKline_Beecham" target="_blank"
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."<br>
Source: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer" target="_blank">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. <br>
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. <br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Rose Huskey</span><span
style="color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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List services made available by First Step Internet,
serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a>
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