Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1947
IG Farben trial
Twenty-three directors and senior executives were tried for war crimes and related offenses; 13 were convicted. Sentences were subsequently reduced and the convicted men were released early.
1942
Zyklon B and the Holocaust
Degesch, a related IG Farben company, supplied Zyklon B, the poison gas used in Nazi gas chambers. The product became directly associated with the industrial system of mass murder.
1941
Forced labor at Monowitz and Auschwitz
IG Farben operated the Buna plant at Monowitz with prisoners supplied by the SS. Approximately 30,000 Auschwitz prisoners are associated with the company’s forced-labor system, under conditions that caused widespread death and suffering.
1940
Medical experiments on concentration-camp inmates
Personnel associated with the Bayer division conducted drug experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz and Mauthausen, including tests involving infections and pharmaceuticals.