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Big Pharma's Role in the Holocaust (Holocaust Memorial Day)
Created on: 2025-01-27
Today, January 27th, is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the neighbouring death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau.
This will be a somewhat darker article.
The horrors of that time are well known, though what is less known is the involvement of industry - particularly the German chemical / pharmaceutical industry.
The story is told in a 1952 book, "The Devil's Chemists", by a prosecutor at Nuremberg, Josiah E. DuBois. At the trial, there were four judges, one of whom had the deciding vote.
In 1904, Carl Duisberg advised fellow industrialists to form a cartel, so that "The now existing domination of the German chemical industry over the rest of the world would then . . . be assured." [p45]


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