Letters from Vienna #147
Letter to a German Friend in Korea VIII
On corporate malfeasance
Dear I.,
I remain sincerely puzzled as to why you “got immunized” (as you put it) and have a bad conscience about the fact. I fear on behalf of both you and your family and often think of a friend, who, like me, was half-Austrian, half-Irish, a film-producer, who died from the jab; I feel very bad about my failure to act or warn and wish I could have done something to prevent it. Perhaps it’s a bad conscience which has prompted this flood (tirade? blizzard?) of letters. I’m not even sure if you read them anymore. Perhaps they are (as most probably is the case) firmly and politely ignored. Perhaps you never read them to begin with.
I’ll now (belatedly, too late?) roll out one argument with strong effect: how can one trust companies, with known criminal records? Take Pfizer for example: “Since 2002 the company and its subsidiaries have been assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards. The $2.3-billion settlement in September 2009…set a new record for both criminal fines and total penalties.”[1]
Yet this is nothing new. My sister pointed out (see letter #8[2]) that Big Business is not our friend, nor has it ever been.
In 1947 the most important part of the Nuremberg Trials, the trial of German industrialists took place: “The chief of the prosecution staff for the I.G. case was Josiah E. Du-Bois, Jr., a deputy to Brigadier General Telford E. Taylor, who succeeded Justice Jackson as chief U.S. provost of the war crimes trials. After months of gathering evidence, examining witnesses, and organizing thousands of documents, the prosecution staff filed an indictment on May 3, 1947, on behalf of the United States. 13 Twenty-four I.G. executives were indicted: Carl Krauch as chairman of I.G.'s supervisory board; Hermann Schmitz as chairman of the I.G. managing board; all the other members of this board (Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knieriem, Fritz ter Meer, Christian Schneider, Otto Ambros, Max Brueggemann, Ernst Buergin, Heinrich Buetefisch, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Carl Lautenschlaeger, Wilhelm Mann, Heinrich Oster, and Karl Wurster); and four other important I.G. officials (Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gattineau, Erich von der Heyde, and Hans Kugler).”
“The indictment, a document of over sixty pages, consisted of five separate counts into which was poured the record of I.G.’s involvement with the Nazi machine. The major counts were “Planning, Preparation, Initiation and Waging of Wars of Aggression and Invasions of Other Countries”; “Plunder and Spoliation”; and “Slavery and Mass Murder.””
“Under the aggressive warfare count, the indictment listed a wide range of offenses: alliance of I.G. with Hitler and the Nazi party; synchronization of all I.G.’s activities with the military planning of the German High Command; participation in the four-year plan preparations and direction of Germany’s economic mobilization for war; participation in creating and equipping the Nazi military machine for aggressive war; procuring and stockpiling critical war materials for the Nazi offensive; participation in weakening Germany’s potential enemies; carrying on propaganda, intelligence, and espionage activities; preparation for and participation in the planning and execution of Nazi aggressions and reaping of spoils therefrom; and participation in plunder, spoliation, slavery, and mass murder as part of the invasions and wars of aggression.”
“In the plunder and spoliation count, the indictment charged that “I.G. marched with the Wehrmacht and played a major role” in Germany’s program for acquisition by conquest: “To that end, it conceived, initiated, and prepared detailed plans for the acquisition by it, with the aid of the German military force, of the chemical industries of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, France, Russia, and other countries.”
“The charge of slavery and mass murder was the crucial count in the indictment, without which it is even doubtful that there would have been any war crimes trial at all. All of the defendants, acting through the instrumentality of I.G.. . .participated in . . . the enslavement of concentration camp inmates . . . the use of prisoners of war in war operations . . . and the mistreatment, terrorization, torture, and murder of enslaved persons. In the course of these activities, millions of persons were uprooted from their homes, deported, enslaved, ill-treated, terrorized, tortured, and murdered.”
“In effect the indictment was a catalogue of Nazi inhumanities in which the I.G. defendants played a part, particularly in the most notorious of all extermination centers, Auschwitz. Farben, in complete defiance of all decency and human considerations, abused its slave workers by subjecting them, among other things, to excessively long, arduous, and exhausting work, utterly disregarding their health or physical condition. The sole criterion of the right to live or die was the production efficiency of said inmates. By virtue of inadequate rest, inadequate food (which was given to the inmates while in bed at the barracks), and because of inadequate quarters (which consisted of a bed of polluted straw, shared by from two to four inmates), many died at their work or collapsed from serious illness there contracted. With the first signs of a decline in the production of any such workers, although caused by illness or exhaustion, such workers would be subjected to the well-known “Selektion.” “Selektion,” in its simplest definition, meant that if, upon a cursory examination, it appeared that the inmate would not be restored within a few days to full productive capacity, he was considered expendable and was sent to the “Birkenau” camp of Auschwitz for the customary extermination. The meaning of “Selektion” and “Birkenau” was known to everyone at Auschwitz and became a matter of common knowledge.”
“The working conditions at the Farben Buna plant were so severe and unendurable that very often inmates were driven to suicide by either dashing through the guards and provoking death by rifle shot or hurling themselves into the high-tension electrically-charged barbed wire fences. As a result of these conditions, the labor turnover in the Buna plant in one year amounted to at least 300 percent. Besides those who were exterminated and committed suicide, up to and sometimes over 100 persons died at their work every day from sheer exhaustion. All depletions occasioned by extermination and other means of death were balanced by replacement with new inmates. Thus, Farben secured a continuous supply of fresh inmates in order to maintain full production.”[3]
That the resulting verdict was mild should hardly surprise: “The prosecution staff was outraged by the court’s verdict and the sentences of the guilty. Chief prosecutor Josiah DuBois regarded the sentences as “light enough to please a chicken thief.””[4]
In the course of time, much was forgotten: “…the successor companies did not intend to be bound by the Allied High Commission law barring convicted war criminals from executive posts. Friedrich Jaehne, a war criminal who had been sentenced at Nuremberg to a year and a half in prison, became a member of the supervisory board of Hoechst in June 1955. In September he was elected chairman. In 1956 Fritz ter Meer, the only war criminal who had been convicted of both plunder and slavery, was elected chairman of the supervisory board of Bayer.”[5]
“In 1977, Hoechst, BASF, and Bayer (the heirs of I.G. Farben) were among the thirty largest industrial companies in the world. Hoechst is the largest company in Germany. Hoechst and BASF are each larger than Du Pont; Bayer is only slightly smaller. Each one is bigger than I.G. at its zenith.”[6]
The verdict against I.G. Farben and the later development is no accident; the Globalist (the Nazis spoke of a “New World Order”) Deep State/Establishment/“Fraternity” usually protects its own (to a large extent but not always (there are always sacrifices to be made)). To have condemned I.G. Farben would have been to condemn itself.
Thus, the Globalist Deep State/Establishment/“Fraternity” supplied the Nazis with all their needs (from ball bearings to oil, trucks and tanks) during the war and helped many escape after it. The attempt to set up an EU/NATO/NWO in Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s under the Nazis failed but the Globalist Deep State/Establishment/“Fraternity” knew that time was on its side and it could wait. Above all else: it profited hugely from the war and knew how to invest the vast sums in its aftermath. All that was needed was the appropriate narrative…
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/#:~:text=Since%202002%20the%20company%20and,criminal%20fines%20and%20total%20penalties.
[3] pp.137-139 The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, Joseph Borkin
[4] p.154 Ibid
[5] p.162 Ibid
[6] p.163 Ibid