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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

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  • In the 1920s, the company had ties to the liberal nationalist German People’s Party and was accused by the Nazis of being an “international capitalist Jewish company”.[8] A decade later, it was a Nazi Party donor and, after the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933, a major government contractor, providing significant material for the German war effort. Throughout that decade it purged itself of its Jewish employees; the remainder left in 1938.[9] Described as “the most notorious German industrial concern during the Third Reich”,[10] in the 1940s the company relied on slave labour from concentration camps, including 30,000 from Auschwitz,[11] and was involved in medical experiments on inmates at both Auschwitz and Mauthausen.[12][13] One of its subsidiaries supplied the poison gas Zyklon B, which killed over one million people in gas chambers during the Holocaust.[c][15]

    I learned a decent bit about WW2 in school but this bit was totally glossed over. Pretty big oversight since they were the source of the gas…