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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: Trademark legends
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- References: <1992Dec24.090824.20013@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <Geoff.6b4p@equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:37:38 GMT
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- In article <Geoff.6b4p@equinox.gen.nz> Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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].
- >
- The term 'Zyklon B' must be based on the similar designations the Germans
- used for the various rocket fuels they used in their rocket program
- (i.e. hydrogen peroxide was called S-stoff).
-
- I know I read somewhere that a present-day German chemical firm was making
- chemical weapons for the Nazis during the 1930s and 40s. Might have been
- the connection to BASF you mention.
-
- Simon
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