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- Subject: Re: Trademark legends
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- From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:51:03 +1200
- References: <1992Dec24.090824.20013@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Simon E. Booth (sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu) wrote:
- >Even stranger, I read on the net (so it must be true!) somewhere a story
- >alleging that Bayer was in operation before and during WWII, making not
- >aspirin but such nasty military chemical products as Taubin and Zyklon,
- >which were nerve gases. No reference to the Bayer company appears in any
- >accounts of the Nuremburg trials.
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- Zyklon B was simply hydrogen cyanide crystals. Manufactured by I.G. Farben.
- I have no idea if they have any relationship to Bayer [I have vague memories
- that there may be a tie-up to BASF, but I wouldn't put money on it].
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