Harro schreef:
Dat directie cq. personeel van IG Farben wist dat er mensen omgebracht werden met hun produkten is dus niet bewezen. I rest my case.
Ik kwam nog een interessant stukje tegen over IG-Farbenindustrie:
IG- Farbenindustrie had built a factory producing synthetic petrol and synthetic rubber at Monowice. As a result of Göring's backing of this concern, the inhabitants of that place were deporterd and there homesteads were pulled down. A member of the boards of that concern, Dr. Otto Ambros, declared in his letter of april 12, 1941, that their cooperation with the SS had been " a blessing".
When IG-Farben had bought the mines Fürstengrube and Janinagrube, sub-camps were built there and the prisoners were mining the coal which was forwarded to Monowice to be processed into petrol an rubber.
Commandant Höss admitted that he had often heard how the foremen of various factories had maltreated the prisoners working there, " and particulary how they beat the prisoners".
In this weekly reports for the period from February 8 to 21, 1943, INg. Faust of IG-Farbenindustrie noted that the SS had pledged themselves " to remove all weak prisoners" " Removing" was, with the SS, synonymous with sending them to gas chambers as the firm paid the daily wages for those prisoners only who did their work regulary.
During a period of three years only, about 30.000 prisoners had perished in the IG-Farbenindustrie factories at Auschwitz.
THE SS AND THE INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS GOT RICH THANKS TO THE WORK OF THE PRISONERS.
IG-Farbenindustrie netted considerable profits thanks to the word of prisoners. The concern used to pay the camp administration 4 mark for 1 day of skilled labour and 3 mark for unskilled labour. Thus the administration of the camp received more than 12 million mark during a period of 7 months for the work of men prisoners and during the period of 9 months for the work of women prisoners. The profits of other establishments employing prisoner manpower must have been considerable, too.
The firm " Degesch" which was producing Cyclon B, used for gassing people in gaschambers, formed part of the IG-Farbenindustrie. They got nearly 300,000 mark for the sale of gas in the years 1941-1944. Only at Auschwitz about 20.000 kilogrammes of Cyclon B were needed to kill approximately 1.500 prisons.
The Nazi industry grew owing to the extermination of the prisoners, whose work it exploited. Industrial concerns, such as Krupp, IG Farbenindustrie, Hermann Göring Werke, Siemens and others got rich thanks to that criminal proceeding.
The slogan " Work brings freedom" , placed above the main gate of the Auschwitz Camp was full of irony, as stated by Höss himself.