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From NYT 1999
"Once the world's biggest chemical conglomerate, I.G. Farben played so important a role in Hitler's war machine and in the Holocaust that it came to be called ''the devil's chemist.'' It manufactured Zyklon B, the gas-chamber poison, among many other products, and its factories exploited more than 35,000 slave laborers, many from Auschwitz. It even built a concentration camp of its own to improve efficiency.
Allied officials broke up Farben after the war and distributed most of its assets to new companies. The old headquarters, a grim concrete fortress here, was converted into American military offices and is now being turned into university classrooms.
But I. G. Farben A.G. never disappeared. It survives as a legal entity, kept alive by lawyers and real estate speculators, outlasting the Allied occupation, the Berlin wall and the cold war.
Though it has been ''in liquidation'' since 1952, its securities are still traded on the Frankfurt exchange. And Farben continues to haunt German courts, pursuing billions of dollars' worth of legal claims dating to the twilight of World War II."
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