IG Farben Essays

  • The Schutzstaffel In The Monowitz-Buna Concentration

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    challenging experience that will affect me for a long time. This Concentration was established by the Schutzstaffel (SS) in October 1942, located near Oswiecim, Poland. There a German chemical industry called Internessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie (IG Farben) in the concentration. Factory made synthetic rubber and sodium (Na) and synthetic rubber production. This was a working camp (25). I felt anxious about the trip and wondered if I could do it. Once I

  • Case Study Of Monsanto

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    Monsanto’s largest competitors are BASF SE, Syngenta, and Bayer CropScience. Monsanto’s efficient and effective support activities for crop production have led to becoming one of the prominent companies in the industry. Product performance (in particular, crop vigor and yield for our row crops and quality for our vegetable seeds), customer support and service, intellectual property rights and protection, product availability and planning and price are important elements of Monsanto’s market success

  • Paradigms of Health Care

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    Paradigms of Health Care Openings: In this paper I will be discussing the two most prevalent models of health. These two models of health are not, of course, total opposites. Similar to terms such as gay and straight they are two definitive labels placed upon a broad spectrum that is hardly definitive. There exists in this case as well a large clouded middle between the two limiting labels. These are collections of thoughts about how to go about continuing life. These two paradigms in

  • Chemical Weapons: Weapons of Mass Destruction

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    Chemical Warfare is not the same as nuclear warfare, or the same as biological warfare. Chemical warfare involves using the deadly properties of chemical substances as weapons.Most weapons used in chemical warfare are considered to be“weapons of mass destruction” or, WMDs, and are not considered to be conventional weapons. Chemical warfare does not depend upon explosive force to neutralize targets; it depends on the chemical properties of a chemical agent weaponized. Defoliants are an example.They

  • The Negative Analysis Of IBM, IBM And The Holocaust

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    These are indirect variables in the complex equation that is the Holocaust. They all indirectly supplied madmen with the power to decide if one human is better than the other. The most direct role when talking about the United States, lies at the door step of the fourth largest company in the world today, (Forbes, 2012), IBM. IBM is an American multinational corporation that originated in the data tabulation business, which is basically the census business. They partnered with the Third Reich

  • Rudolf Hoess and Auschwitz

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    Rudolf Hoess and Auschwitz After World War II the world began to here accounts of the atrocities and crimes committed by the Nazi’s to the Jews and other enemies of the Nazis. The international community wanted answers and called for the persecution of the criminals that participated in the murder of millions throughout Europe. The SS was responsible for playing a leading role in the Holocaust for the involvement in the death of millions of innocent lives. Throughout, Europe concentration camps

  • Auschwitz Concentration Camps

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    there (Auschwitz, n.d.) Once they were judged incapable of work, most were murdered with a phenol injection to the heart. Auschwitz III-Monowitz became operational in October 1942. Monowitz was used as a base for imprisoned laborers working for IG Farben, a chemical company. Of the three camps, Monowitz was more infamous for prisoner labor than

  • The Gerstein Report: A Nazi Officer and His Experiences

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    KURT GERSTEIN AND THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ARROUND HIS REPORT. ¿INNOCENT OR GUILTY? __________________________________________________________________________________ "I prayed with them and cried out to my God and theirs. How glad I should have been to go into the gas chambers with them! How gladly I should have died the same death as theirs! Then an SS officer in uniform would have been found in the gas chambers. People would have believed it was an accident and the story would have been buried

  • Ford Motor Company through the Ages

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    The Ford Motor Company (FMC) was founded in Detroit in 1903 and began shortly thereafter exporting cars to European branches. Cross-border assembly started in Canada in 1904 and was later implemented in the European markets. The first European plant was established in 1911 in England, and this was followed with other lower volume assembly plants across the European continent. All the plants and branches assembled and sold the Model T, using American methods and practices. This proved to be a success

  • Gravity's Rainbow By Thomas Pynchon Analysis

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    East India Company, have setup most of the trade routes and infrastructure for the modern global economy. Adam Smith was busy working on his economic philosophy, which is encompassed in The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776. Companies such as IG Farben and General Electric, which play a sinister role in Gravity's Rainbow, were built in an economic system founded on the developments of this era. At the same time, the social philosophies that Kant and Hegel were developing, supplied absolute standards