Der Chemiekonzern IG Farben plante nahe dem KZ ein großes Industriewerk – und nutzte Häftlinge als Arbeiter. Über ein dunkles ...

Der Chemiekonzern IG Farben plante nahe dem KZ ein großes Industriewerk – und nutzte Häftlinge als Arbeiter. Über ein dunkles Kapitel deutscher Wirtschaftsgeschichte ...

German companies, such as IG Farben, built factories specifically for this purpose in the huge Auschwitz complex, which comprised three main camps and 50 subcamps. The Nazis endeavoured to squeeze ...

Within 20 miles of Auschwitz lay a network of mines with access to some of the richest coal seams in Europe. Towards the end of 1940, these were just the resources that scientists at IG Farben ...

German chemicals company IG Farben built and operated a synthetic rubber factory at Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Other private companies like Krupp and Siemens-Schuckert also ran factories nearby ...

After Auschwitz survivor Albrecht Weinberg left his German hometown of Leer behind, it took him more than 60 years to settle in the country of his birth again. That first journey back to Germany left ...

Es geht gern vergessen, dass in Auschwitz auch Polen nichtjüdischer Herkunft umkamen. Dazu passt, dass viele polnische ...

In a letter to IG Farben manager Fritz ter Meer in early 1941, Dr Otto Ambros praised IG Farben’s friendship with the SS in speeding construction of its Auschwitz-Buna plant and wrote of a banquet ...

Am 27. Januar 1945 haben Soldaten der Roten Armee die Konzentrationslager von Auschwitz befreit. Mehr als eine Million ...

At Auschwitz, the Nazis wanted to kill "useless mouths" instantly and work stronger prisoners to death as slave laborers in places like the nearby IG Farben factory. Meanwhile, the SS profited ...

German chemicals company IG Farben built and operated a synthetic rubber factory at Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Other private companies like Krupp and Siemens-Schuckert also ran factories nearby ...