Historic Fact #3
The Nuremberg Pharma Tribunal documents that it was IG Farben that built the Auschwitz concentration camp into a giant forced labor and extermination site. Hundreds of thousands of slave laborers were forced to construct “IG Auschwitz” – the largest industrial plant in Europe at that time and a four-mile march away from the concentration camp. The camp and the plant cost IG Farben nearly one billion Reichsmark (about $10 billion in today’s currency) and was financed by Deutsche Bank. IG Farben director Fritz Ter Meer (top right) was sentenced in Nuremberg in connection with Auschwitz for genocide, slavery and other crimes against humanity.
