IG Farben
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Oct 29, 2026
Contemporary accomplices? Considering the potential liability of AI targeting system providers under the Rome Statute
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7:57Elizabeth RushingHOST
The natural person who held effective decision-making power, the executive who authorized or had the power to veto the provision of the system.
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8:06Elizabeth RushingHOST
The IG Farben standard, developed after the Second World War, provides the template.
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8:12Elizabeth RushingHOST
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.
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8:22Elizabeth RushingHOST
The Zyklon B tribunal inferred Tesh's knowledge from his professional position and the public context of the atrocities being committed.
The Man Who Sees The Future - EP 94 Neal Stephenson
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19:34Neal StephensonGUEST
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.
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19:47Neal StephensonGUEST
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.
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20:00Neal StephensonGUEST
It's the only place in the world that makes heavy water and says, we want to buy all of your heavy water now.
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20:07Neal StephensonGUEST
Yeah.
Companies That the Third Reich Made Rich
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Today, the company remains part of the multi-billion euro global industrial engineering and steel production conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To build a modern motorized army, fuel and rubber are two vital supplies, whose raw materials were scarce in German territory.
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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.
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IG Farben had just the right solution to this problem.
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It's long-term research in synthetic fuels and rubber.
The CIA Files - Part 24
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4:56Ben KelleranHOST
So...
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4:59Towner-WatkinsGUEST
In 1898, the British chemist at Bayer Company, and Bayer, of course, becomes part of IG Farben.
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5:12Towner-WatkinsGUEST
That's why this history is so important to the history coming forward.
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5:20Ben KelleranHOST
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?
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13:00Towner-WatkinsGUEST
And just so that everybody understands, it was not just isolated to the United States.
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13:06Towner-WatkinsGUEST
Switzerland had a pharmaceutical company that was part of Sandoz, S-A-N-D-O-Z.
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13:15Towner-WatkinsGUEST
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.
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13:37Towner-WatkinsGUEST
And they even colluded with IG Farben to create the lethal gases that were used on the concentration camp people.
Vyzygoth interviewed by Author Adam Gorightly, date of interview unknown
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14:14VyzygothGUEST
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.
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14:23VyzygothGUEST
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.
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14:38VyzygothGUEST
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.
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14:47VyzygothGUEST
And he documented it because DiBaggio apparently wrote this article just as certain documents became declassified.
The men in the room
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Gustav Krupp was there.
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Four directors of IG Farben were there.
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Siemens was represented.
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Hitler spoke for about ninety minutes.
Industry Primers Podcast: Fertilizers, Part One: The Story
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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.
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Bosch, by then chairman of IG Farben, went and ordered the company's managers to go with him.
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Haber was buried in Basel.
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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.
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The arc and the synthesis stood level, but the arc needed great quantities of cheap hydropower, and the synthesis could run without it.
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The arc could not keep up.
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In 1927, Hydro gave it up and bought a license for the ammonia method from IG Farben, the combine into which BASF had merged.
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IG Farben took 25% of Hydro's shares.
Spies Control Us - Free Half (Old Boys) -Jay Dyer
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61:37Jay DyerHOST
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.
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62:00Jay DyerHOST
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.
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62:17Jay DyerHOST
But publicly, of course, uh, Dulles would say, "Oh, I don't support any of these people.
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62:22Jay DyerHOST
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.
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62:56Jay DyerHOST
Big chem.
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62:57Jay DyerHOST
Big chem.
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62:59Jay DyerHOST
This is giant rubber corporations, uh, Standard Oil, Rockefeller, IG Farben, et cetera.
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63:05Jay DyerHOST
Um, there's one called Chemie, uh, a German company.
Rural Route Oct 14, 2026 JC Cole what would your American Dollar buy in 1913?
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29:50JC ColeGUEST
Right.
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29:52JC ColeGUEST
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.
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30:02JC ColeGUEST
So, you know, just read the book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich.
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30:06JC ColeGUEST
It says a lot of it.
Infiltration, not invasion: Who holds America’s power?
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8:24Mel KGUEST
Uh, Allen Dulles was at some point put at the top of the OSS, American intelligence in Europe, uh, in Switzerland.
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8:33Mel KGUEST
His brother was representing Standard Oil of New Jersey, which is the Rockefellers, and, and at the same time representing IG Farben.
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8:42Mel KGUEST
And the, uh, relationship between IG Farben and the Rockefeller family and Rockefeller Standard Oil was growing over time.
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8:52Mel KGUEST
Uh, so John Foster Dulles was essentially creating what we now know as the global public/private partnership.
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8:59Mel KGUEST
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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18:01Mel KGUEST
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.
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18:10Mel KGUEST
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.
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18:38Mel KGUEST
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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