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May 21, 1942:
Thousands of Jews die in Nazi gas chambers; IG Farber sets up
factory
On this day in 1942, 4,300 Jews are deported from the Polish town
of Chelm to the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, where all are
gassed to death. On the same day, the German firm IG Farben sets
up a factory just outside Auschwitz, in order to take advantage
of Jewish slave laborers from the Auschwitz concentration camps.
Sobibor had five gas chambers, where about 250,000 Jews were
killed between 1942 and 1943. A camp revolt occurred in October
1943; 300 Jewish slave laborers rose up and killed several
members of the SS as well as Ukrainian guards. The rebels were
killed as they battled their captors or tried to escape. The
remaining prisoners were executed the very next day.
IG Farben, as well as exploiting Jewish slave labor for its oil
and rubber production, also performed drug experiments on
inmates. Tens of thousands of prisoners would ultimately die
because of brutal work conditions and the savagery of the guards.
Several of the firm's officials would be convicted of "plunder,"
"spoliation of property," "imposing slave labor," and "inhumane
treatment" of civilians and POWs after the war. The company
itself came under Allied control. The original goal was to
dismantle its industries, which also included the manufacture of
chemicals and pharmaceuticals, so as to prevent it from ever
posing a threat "to Germany's neighbors or to world peace." But
as time passed, the resolve weakened, and the Western powers
broke the company up into three separate divisions: Hoechst,
Bayer, and BASF.
73, K.O. n0kfq
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