THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, Septewher 1, 1918 33

I G Farben: Conglomerate With a Vicious Nazi Past

A Swiss company, In- two-bit, jerk-water coun-
has presented a source book drugs for suffering hu- terhandel, nominally try has oil. Tomorrow,
on the German chemical manity and also devas- owned it. Interhandel the Saudis can destroy
WASHINGTON (JTA) — combine that dominated tated humanity with
First as an economist and industrial giants in the very poison gas during World was originally estab- our economy by just let-
later as a lawyer and histo- countries that Germany War I and fueled Hitler's lished before World War tang the oil price float; in-
rian, Joseph Borkin studied had sought to conquer in Wehrmacht
and II by I.G. Farben to con= nation will go crazy. Our
teal its foreign assets, industry will come to a
and investigated the corpo-
Luftwaffe in World War
two world wars.
evade German taxes and halt if an embargo
rate greed, evil and manipu-
From thik book flows a II with synthetic oil and
raise capital abroad. In starts."
lations of the I.G. Farben
lesson for th4se who still fail rubber, much of them
What oil is to Saudi
Co.
to understand the might coming from its own 1942, however, the U.S.
Now,,after 40 years of re- and craft of industrial- slave-labor establish- government considered Arabia, technological
GAF
to
be
enemy
prop-
genius was to I.G. Farben,
search and documentation military combinations ment — "I.G. Auschwitz"
Sorkin explained. "All the
of this industrial demon, he against which Dwight — on the outskirts of the erty and seized it.
After the war, Interhan- great metallurgical and
Eisenhower warned in his Auschwitz death camp it-
del sought to regain GAF chemical companies in the
Presidency. And during an self.
PORTRAITS
Auschwitz supplied the but no U.S. attorney gen- world had to take a junior
interview with the Jewish
position to the I.G. Farben
Telegraphic Agency, Bor- labor for the construction of eral would allow it until
CANDIDS
1963. In that year, Sorkin cartels. Can you imagine &
kin warned those in places I.G. Auschwitz. Slave
Alcoa, Dow, Standard Oil
PASSPORTS
of business and political laborers were worked to reports, Interhandel's head,
to be junior partners.
PHOTO JEWELRY authority who bend their death in the I.G. Auschwitz Alfred Schaefer, was intro- had
oil and rubber plants or in duced to Attorney General I.G. Farben sat at the head
knees
to
the
oil
and
finan-
PHOTO ART
of
the
table."
cial sheiks of Saudi Arabia, coal mines. When they be- Robert F. Kennedy through
The oil companies "take
Stop In and Look
dreaming of political power came too weak to work they Prince ,Radziw ill, Jac-
dictation
from the Saudis
through controls on were immediately put to queline Kennedy's brother-
Behind Farrell's
in-law. Under an arrange- and not from the Pentagon,"
death with I.G. Farben-
technological America.
gas
ment worked out with Ken- he added. "It is a disgraceful
In "The Crime and produced Zyklon B
nedy, Borkin reports, the act in history. We are now in
Punishment of I.G. Far- which Farben sold to the
U.S. government released a state of war and we should
Nazis
at
a
profit.
ben," published by The
GAF and sold it through an set up a Manhattan project
Of the 300,000 death
Free Press, a division of
to get synthetic oil like we
Macmillan Publishing camp inmates who passed investment banker for $329 did to get the atomic bomb.
million, of which $124 mil-
Co. in New York, Borkin through I.G. Auschwitz, at
lion was paid to Interhan- That's the big lesson. And
_ 29289 Southfield
documents how this least 25,000 were worked to
del. we ought to enforce the
industrial complex pro- death.
Borkin believes that Sherman Act. Don't let the
Borkin also describes
duces benign products
Joseph P. Kennedy, the conglomerates get so big
other
cruelties
of
I.G.
Au-
like aspirin and sulfa
schwitz, such as a "standing father of the President and and powerful that they can
cell" in which the victim Attorney General, had na conduct our foreign policy."
could neither stand upright, interest in GAF and per- Borkin has impressive
kneel or lie down. There suaded his sons to go credentials for writing this
were also gallows from through with the transac- book. In collaboration with
(warm white w/gold veins)
which a body or two usually tion. Five previous attor- Charles A. Welsh, he pub-
12" x 12" x 3/8" x 16" x 16" x 1/2"
♦
hung. These were examples neys general had refused to lished in 1973 "Germany's
to other inmates of what do it, although influence on Master Plan," exposing the
ALSO - very rare!
♦
could happen for such the U.S. government to re- hidden economic war of the
Red Lavanto - deep reds and greens
♦
crimes as eating bones from store GAF's assets to its German cartels.
a garbage can, stealing German and Swiss owners From 1938 to 1946, Bor-
to form magnificent slabs - 24" x 36"
♦
wood for a fire to keep had been strong for years. kin was chief of the patent
However, the Kennedy and cartel section of the
warm, or begging bread
♦ For Sale at Wholesale Prices - overstocked due to late ship-
Administration might have anti-trust division of the
♦ ments from Italy for construction jobs.
from pirsoners of war.
Why wasn't I.G. Farben thought the GAF transac- Department of Justice. He
destroyed by Allied air tion might improve postwar was responsible for the war-
bombings? In '1944 the German-American political time investigation and
♦
Evenings -
U.S. War Department and economic relations. prosecution of the I.G.-
was urged by John Pehle, West Germany had friends dominated cartels.
in both the Republican and
the War Refugee Board's
Democratic parties.
executive director, to
ewish Calendar
Tapper's Invites You To See The Latest In
"The strange case of
bomb both Auschwitzes.
From World Over Magazine
The department re- General Aniline will not
sponded that such action rest," Borkin forecast in NEW YORK — The 12-
his
closing
lines
after
month
Jewish year is basi-
would be "an unwar-
pointing out that the rally a lunar, or moon-based
ranted diversion of services of Robert calendar. The moon circles
planes needed.
the earth every 291/2 days,
Schmitz, who demanded
elsewhere," Borkin ob-
$11,250,000 plus interest which makes one month. A
served.
for his work in helping little arithmetic tells you
In Nuremberg, in 1946, a
Interhandel get GAF that 12 291/2-clay-months
half-dozen I.G. Farben back, were "worth at will equal 354 days. As we
executives were convicted
least as much as Prince know from the secular
for slavery and mass mur-
calendar, which is solar, or
Radziwill's influence."
der. They were sentenced to
sun-based, it takes the
jail terms of six to eight
Borkin warned that "Lt. earth 365 days to circle the
years.
Farben is not a person, not a sun. That leaves a differ-
Another half dozen were
company. It is a way of life. ence of 11 days.
found guilty only of "plun-
In order to keep the holi-
der and spoliation" and There will be other people
their punishment was 18 doing it. As long as the con- days from shifting, and to
months to five years in ditions exist, I.G. Farben make up for the 11 -day dif-
ference, a "leap" month was
will be back in spirit."
prison.
What lessons are to be added to the calendar. That
And, to cap it all, Fritz ter
month is a second Adar, and
Meer, the only executive drawn
from
this
book?
Your price starts at
"We
Jews
should
never is called Adar Sheni or Adar
convicted
of mass and
murder,
slavery, plunder
spolia- underestimate our adver- Bet. It is added seven times
tion returned to a top execu- saries," Sorkin replied. during a 19-year cycle.
tive position in 10 years. In "Hitler told us what he There is still some differ-
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Bayer, one of I.G.'s largest eating rugs, a madman. very great.
See
Apart from his madness, Year in and year out, we
components.
Despite the passing of Hitler represents some- have been able to rely on the
years, the I.G. Farben saga thing evil in Germany. He seasons as a signal for our
may spout more sensations didn't invent anti- holidays. This steady calen-
in the months ahead with Semitism; he articulated dar also helps us remember

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and the Carter Administra- President Carter rael. Shavuot reminds us
tion in the principal parts. should learn this lesson, not only of Sinai and the
Borkin points out that the Borkin added. "Our Ten Commandments, but
I.G. Farben main American foreign policy is being also of the first wheat har-
General Aniline throttled by Arabs. We vest: Sukkot reminds us of
asset was -
and Film Corporation have to kow-tow to the fruit harvest before the
(GAF). Saudis because that coming of winter.

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