Talk:IG Farben/Archives/2016

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Intentionally misleading emphasis regarding Holocaust poison

"IG Farben had bought the patent for the pesticide Zyklon B, which had been invented by the Nobel Prize-winning Jewish German chemist Fritz Haber's research group ...". "IG Farben licensed the pesticide to various companies, including the American Cyanamid Company [...] and to the German company Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), founded by Fritz Haber, and whose products were used in Holocaust gas chambers."

These two sentences, while not factually incorrect, appear carefully crafted so as to simultaneously distance Farben from the Holocaust and associate Haber, a Jew, with it. In reality, Farben knowingly sold Zyklon B without its safety odorant to the SS, who used it in extermination camp down the road from Farben's rubber factory.

I can't avoid the feeling that the whole page has been carefully whitewashed to reduce the impact of the company's "[embroilment] in the Nazi regime's policies". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:8052:F300:68A2:A782:FBC1:6810 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2016 (UTC)