Telford Taylor, US-Chief Prosecutor, in his Opening Statement in the trial against IG Farben (BAYER, BASF, Hoechst) executives at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal 1947:
”Their purpose was to turn the German nation into a military machine so it could impose her dominion on Europe, and, later, on other nations beyond the seas. They were the warp and woof* of the dark mantle of death that settled over Europe.“
* the essential fabric
