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IG Farben (now Bayer) collaborates widely with the Nazi agenda in the interest of profit.

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IG Farben establishes a plant for synthetic rubber and liquid fuel next to the Auschwitz concentration camp so that they can exploit the labor of those imprisoned in the camp.

IG Farben's director writes to his colleagues: “our new friendship with the SS is very fruitful.” One of IG Farben's subsidies will also produce Zyklon B, the gas that kills over 1 million people in gas chambers during the Holocaust. After World War II, IG Farben will be dissolved into Bayer Pharmaceuticals and other companies.