IG Farben:

Recall, IG Farben was part of the Nazi-cartel that emerged in the mid-1920s as American capital flowed into German corporations under the Dawes Plan. This enabled them to fund Hitler’s political campaigns. Between 1927 and 1939, the company’s operations doubled in size. Hugely profitable agreements were made with American firms such as Standard Oil, DuPont, Alcoa and Dow Chemical.

Farben was ultimately seized by Allied Forces and eventually broken up into separate chemical companies: Bayer (Monsanto), Hoechst and BASF. Today, these companies are some of the biggest chemical, pharmaceutical and GMO food companies in the world.

In typical Prussian style, IG Farben never retreated; it just rebranded.

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