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IG Farben

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Oct 29, 2026

Elizabeth RushingHOST
7:57
The natural person who held effective decision-making power, the executive who authorized or had the power to veto the provision of the system.
Elizabeth RushingHOST
8:06
The IG Farben standard, developed after the Second World War, provides the template.
Elizabeth RushingHOST
8:12
A defendant is liable if they were a participant in the act or, being aware of it, had the authority to prevent it and failed to do so.
Elizabeth RushingHOST
8:22
The Zyklon B tribunal inferred Tesh's knowledge from his professional position and the public context of the atrocities being committed.
Neal StephensonGUEST
19:34
And in February of 1940, so it's after the invasion of Poland, but it's before the invasion of Europe, the rest of Europe, I should say.
Neal StephensonGUEST
19:47
Um, the head of IG Farben, the soon to be infamous giant German chemical company sends a letter to the manager of this plant in Norway.
Neal StephensonGUEST
20:00
It's the only place in the world that makes heavy water and says, we want to buy all of your heavy water now.
Neal StephensonGUEST
20:07
Yeah.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:33
Today, the company remains part of the multi-billion euro global industrial engineering and steel production conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:39
Founded in 1925 as a merger of six major German chemical and pharmaceutical companies, IG Farben quickly became the company's most important conglomerate, producing synthetic dyes, pigments, agricultural nitrogen fertilizers, photographic supplies, and all kinds of pharmaceuticals.
speaker_0NARRATOR
3:55
By 1932, it had profits of approximately 48 million Reichsmarks, making it the largest chemical and pharmaceutical enterprise in the world, as well as the largest European corporation overall and the fourth largest globally.
speaker_0NARRATOR
4:08
In 1933, Adolf Hitler took power and focused on rearming the country that he had migrated to ironically to escape military service in his native Austria.
speaker_0NARRATOR
4:15
To build a modern motorized army, fuel and rubber are two vital supplies, whose raw materials were scarce in German territory.
speaker_0NARRATOR
4:23
This made the country dependent on imports, which could raise suspicions from the international community that Germany was rearming itself and violating the Treaty of Versailles.
speaker_0NARRATOR
4:32
IG Farben had just the right solution to this problem.
speaker_0NARRATOR
4:35
It's long-term research in synthetic fuels and rubber.
Ben KelleranHOST
4:56
So...
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
4:59
In 1898, the British chemist at Bayer Company, and Bayer, of course, becomes part of IG Farben.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
5:12
That's why this history is so important to the history coming forward.
Ben KelleranHOST
5:20
Didn't they make a bid for, oh, sorry to interrupt, but didn't they make a bid for, was it Monsanto here in the last two to three years?

8 MINS LATER

Towner-WatkinsGUEST
13:00
And just so that everybody understands, it was not just isolated to the United States.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
13:06
Switzerland had a pharmaceutical company that was part of Sandoz, S-A-N-D-O-Z.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
13:15
And their specific subsidiary that did pharmaceuticals, CIBA, was in collusion with IG Farben in creating pharmaceuticals to test on the concentration people under the guise of IG Farben.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
13:37
And they even colluded with IG Farben to create the lethal gases that were used on the concentration camp people.
VyzygothGUEST
14:14
So one day, besides thumbing through the pictures, I came upon an article that called The Unholy Alliance by a gentleman by the name of DiBacchio.
VyzygothGUEST
14:23
And in it, he talks about GM, DuPont, and Ford, amongst others, building the infrastructure, partnering with IG Farben, the industrial arm of the Nazis, and basically making money on both sides of the, not only of the war, but on both sides of the ocean.
VyzygothGUEST
14:38
And, of course, Penthouse would be the kind of magazine that this article would get out in because life wasn't going to touch it, look wasn't going to touch it, time and Newsweek were not going to touch it.
VyzygothGUEST
14:47
And he documented it because DiBaggio apparently wrote this article just as certain documents became declassified.
speaker_0HOST
0:20
Gustav Krupp was there.
speaker_0HOST
0:22
Four directors of IG Farben were there.
speaker_0HOST
0:24
Siemens was represented.
speaker_0HOST
0:26
Hitler spoke for about ninety minutes.
speaker_1NARRATOR
48:36
A year after his death, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society held a memorial for him in Berlin, and the regime made plain that it disapproved of anyone attending.
speaker_1NARRATOR
48:44
Bosch, by then chairman of IG Farben, went and ordered the company's managers to go with him.
speaker_1NARRATOR
48:50
Haber was buried in Basel.
speaker_1NARRATOR
48:53
In his will, he had asked to lie beside his first wife, and four years after his death, Clara Immerwar's ashes were brought to Basel and buried next to his grave.
speaker_1NARRATOR
52:02
The arc and the synthesis stood level, but the arc needed great quantities of cheap hydropower, and the synthesis could run without it.
speaker_1NARRATOR
52:09
The arc could not keep up.
speaker_1NARRATOR
52:12
In 1927, Hydro gave it up and bought a license for the ammonia method from IG Farben, the combine into which BASF had merged.
speaker_1NARRATOR
52:21
IG Farben took 25% of Hydro's shares.
Jay DyerHOST
61:37
In fact, according to Burton Hirsch, we're gonna see that there's a really fascinating covert operation that the Dulles' allegedly helped Tiny Mustache Man and Germany do so that they can con- could, could continue to be funded while publicly the US had sanctions against Tiny Mustache Man.
Jay DyerHOST
62:00
In fact, Dulles had dealt with IG Farben and had defended Franco's companies in, uh, legal matters, thus consulting for and aiding some of these fascists.
Jay DyerHOST
62:17
But publicly, of course, uh, Dulles would say, "Oh, I don't support any of these people.
Jay DyerHOST
62:22
I don't have any direct connection." There was always a wall of, uh, plausible deniability from Allen Dulles in any of the Tiny Mustache Man, uh, or, uh, Franco operations.
Jay DyerHOST
62:56
Big chem.
Jay DyerHOST
62:57
Big chem.
Jay DyerHOST
62:59
This is giant rubber corporations, uh, Standard Oil, Rockefeller, IG Farben, et cetera.
Jay DyerHOST
63:05
Um, there's one called Chemie, uh, a German company.
JC ColeGUEST
29:50
Right.
JC ColeGUEST
29:52
And anybody who looks up the history of Bayer Pharmaceuticals knows that it was part of IG Farben, which was the industrial might behind Hitler.
JC ColeGUEST
30:02
So, you know, just read the book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich.
JC ColeGUEST
30:06
It says a lot of it.
Mel KGUEST
8:24
Uh, Allen Dulles was at some point put at the top of the OSS, American intelligence in Europe, uh, in Switzerland.
Mel KGUEST
8:33
His brother was representing Standard Oil of New Jersey, which is the Rockefellers, and, and at the same time representing IG Farben.
Mel KGUEST
8:42
And the, uh, relationship between IG Farben and the Rockefeller family and Rockefeller Standard Oil was growing over time.
Mel KGUEST
8:52
Uh, so John Foster Dulles was essentially creating what we now know as the global public/private partnership.
Mel KGUEST
8:59
Uh, at the same time people also don't know that John Foster Dulles was one of the writers of the UN treaty.

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Mel KGUEST
18:01
I also got a lot of people, and, um, there's also other writers like Annie Jacobsen, Adam Lebor, Talbot, uh, Anthony Sutton, who have covered this stuff.
Mel KGUEST
18:10
But because of the control of information until now, essentially, until all of us started speaking up and speaking out, that it became impossible to silence everyone, a lot of their work wasn't fully, uh, put out there for public consumption, at least it- ... out of Nazi Germany before Hitler surrendered, uh, and that Hitler's surrender was orchestrated essentially by international bankers and lawyers to figure this out.
Mel KGUEST
18:38
And, and what I learned, uh, through that and through looking into the people that I know were confirmed to be there, many of them, um, are people that run or were running IG Farben and, um, you know, Krupp and, uh, the steel, German steel.

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