Event

IG Farben Trial

The second U.S. industrialist trial at Nuremberg (Case 6); 13 of 23 defendants were convicted in July 1948.

5 links, 2 backed by primary records. 2 more in open data

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I. G. Farben its officials were the defendants Scholarship & press 1
Georg von Schnitzler defendant; sentenced to five years Scholarship & press 1
Nuremberg Military Tribunals the court Scholarship & press 2
IG Farben’s Auschwitz plant (Monowitz) the Tribunal found its labour policy a crime against humanity Primary record 3
Degesch supplied Zyklon B; the Tribunal did not find the Farben defendants guilty of this Primary record 4

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Proof 4 sources

NMT Case 6: USA vs. Carl Krauch, et al., Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project. Scholarship & press
The twenty-three defendants were all officials of the "I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft," a large German conglomerate of chemical firms.
Von Schnitzler: guilty, count 2, five years
Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, Case 6: The IG Farben Case, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
The Tribunal returned its judgment on July 29 and 30
Judgment in the IG Farben case, p. 1187 (Auschwitz and Fuerstengrube), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VIII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy), 29 Jul 1948. Primary record
The use of concentration-camp labor and forced foreign workers at Auschwitz with the initiative displayed by the officials of Farben in the procurement and utilization of such labor, is a crime against humanity
Judgment in the IG Farben case, p. 1169 (Poison Gas; Cyclon-B), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VIII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy), 29 Jul 1948. Primary record
The proof is quite convincing that large quantities of Cyclon-B were supplied to the SS by Degesch and that it was used in the mass extermination of inmates of concentration camps, including Auschwitz.

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