Letter to a German Friend in Korea IV

Of the sins of IG Farben and its heirs

Mar 29, 2023

Letters from Vienna #143

Letter to a German Friend in Korea IV

Dear I.,

That I write to you in English rather than German should hardly surprise. You were always annoyed when I wrote in German on account of the innumerable errors I forever made. Yet you never bothered to ask why my German was so poor. The answer is quite simple: the weight of history, which led to a vexed and complicated relationship with that particular language.

Yet that relationship has, over the past three years, fundamentally changed. Fascism has become the norm, not the exception and Fascism is currently a British, American, Australian and even Irish phenomenon and not merely a German, Italian or Croatian one. An average Democrat these days has no problem locking people up in concentration camps, experimenting on or even exterminating them. Chomsky, who is a complete and utter fraud, spoke out the thought of many when he said that those who refused to take the poison jab ought be starved to death.

There remains however a direct link between the specifically terrible German past and its equally appalling present. Monsanto was recently taken over by Bayer, Pfizer pays royalties to Bayer[1] and Bayer, as you doubtlessly remember, was one of the eight members of IG Farben (that included Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Cassella, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, Chemische Fabrik vorm. Weiler-ter Meer, Hoechst and Chemische Fabrik Kalle), which played such an important role in bringing the Nazis to power.

One family that was associated with IG Farben were the Warburgs (see letter #133[2]), and, according to Webster Tarpley: it was the Warburgs who helped sabotage the Jewish boycott of Nazi Germany, a boycott that could have brought the Nazis to their knees and ended the “Hitler Project” then and there. According to Webster Tarpley: “the Warburgs demanded that American Jews not “agitate” against the Hitler government, or join the organized boycott. The American Jewish Committee and the B’nai B’rith, who opposed the boycott as the Nazi military state grew increasingly powerful, carried out the Warburgs’ decision.” The collapse of the boycott paved the way for the “Haavara Agreement” of 1933 and the extremely close collaboration between the Nazis and Zionists, a cooperation, which ultimately led to the creation of Israel (with Nazi help) and the Holocaust (the mass murder of those Jews either opposed to Zionism or who were regarded as expendable).

One mustn’t forget above all else that IG Auschwitz was a private enterprise in the service of powerful oligarchs, and that it was an international enterprise: “(Prescott) Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow Thyssen to move assets around the world.”

“Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and grew rich from Hitler’s efforts to re-arm between the two world wars. One of the pillars in Thyssen’s international corporate web, UBC, worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in the Netherlands. More tantalising are Bush’s links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC), based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration camps, including Auschwitz.”[3]

When President George W. Bush said: “History is a reminder of what’s possible,”[4] (as he emerged from a guided tour of the gas chambers at Auschwitz) he probably meant: “History is a reminder of what’s possible to get away with”.

Given the historical relationship between the Bush family and the Nazis the behavior of President George W. Bush should hardly surprise: “Bush, knowingly and deliberately took this country to war in Iraq under false pretenses, a war that condemned over 100,000 human beings, including 4,000 young American soldiers, to horrible, violent deaths. That, of course, is the most serious consequence of Bush’s monumentally criminal behavior…”[5]

There was a eugenicist dimension to Auschwitz that (surprise, surprise) is often ignored: “When the war started, the eugenicists, doctors and psychiatrists staffed the new “T4” agency, which planned and supervised the mass killings: first at “euthanasia centers,” where the same categories which had first been subject to sterilization were now to be murdered, their brains sent in lots of 200 to experimental psychiatrists; then at slave camps such as Auschwitz; and finally, for Jews and other race victims, at straight extermination camps in Poland, such as Treblinka and Belsen.”

“In 1933, as what Hitler called his “New Order” appeared, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. appointed William S. Farish the chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made president and chief executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Center, New York, where he spent a good deal of time with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben; his company paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press.”

“Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the shipping business – like the Bush family. He hired Nazi German crews for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired Emil Helfferich, chairman of the Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, board member of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top Farish-Standard executive in Germany.”

“This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish together with Prescott Bush in a small, select group of men operating from abroad through Hitler’s “revolution,” and calculating that they would never be punished.”[6]

Eugenics remains (albeit under a different guise) the driving ideology of the current “Genocide by Jab” (see letter: #102[7]).

It ought also hardly surprise that the Rockefellers, who currently play such a central role in the Genocide by Jab, funded Mengele (see “Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust” by Edwin Black) or that without the help of IBM (the precursor to Silicon Valley) the Holocaust wouldn’t have been possible at all.

“In evaluating the Polish Silesian area (Otto) Ambros made a personal and detailed exploration of the proposed sites” Joseph Borkin tells us. “The one he finally recommended was particularly suited for the installation. A coal mine was nearby and three rivers converged to provide a vital requirement, a large source of water. Together with these three rivers, the Reich railroad and the autobahn afforded excellent transportation to and from the area. These were not decisive advantages, however, over the Norwegian site. But the Silesian location had one advantage that was overwhelming: the S.S. had plans to expand enormously a concentration camp nearby. The promise of an inexhaustible supply of slave labor was an attraction that could not be resisted.”

“In July 1942…the I.G. managing board voted to solve its Auschwitz labor problems by establishing its own concentration camp: The initial appropriation was five million Reichsmarks, a modest amount to protect its investment of almost a billion Reichsmarks.”

“…under the circumstances, an I.G. concentration camp had obvious advantages to recommend it. Inmates would not be drained of their already limited energy by the long marches from the main concentration camp to the construction site. Security would improve and fewer of the scarce S.S. guards would be required. Discipline and punishment would be more effective, and I.G. would also have greater and more immediate control over the use of the inmates. Of no small consequence, costs would be reduced.”

“Monowitz was completed in the summer of 1942. Although it belonged to I.G., Monowitz had all the equipment of the typical Nazi concentration camp – watchtowers with searchlights, warning sirens, poised machine guns, armed guards, and trained police dogs. The entire camp was encircled with electrically charged barbed wire. There was a “standing cell” in which the victim could neither stand upright, kneel, nor lie down. There was also a gallows, often with a body or two hanging from it as a grim example to the rest of the inmates. Across the arched entrance was the Auschwitz motto, “Freedom through Work.””

“In cases of infractions of the rules by inmates, the I.G. foremen sent written requests to the S.S. administration for suitable punishment. The S.S. complied, recording on its own forms the details of the I.G. charge and the S.S. disposition. Typical offenses charged by I.G. included “lazy,” “shirking,” “refusal to obey,” “slow to obey,”” etc. etc.[8]

This was hardly that far removed from the current world of the “lockdown” and the “fifteen-minute city” (see letter #131[9]). Not that much has really changed.