Lee Duna to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoGerman firm BASF urged to quit Xinjiang over ‘gross abuses’ of Uyghurswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down11cross-posted to: europe@feddit.de
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkGerman firm BASF urged to quit Xinjiang over ‘gross abuses’ of Uyghurswww.theguardian.comLee Duna to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square9fedilinkcross-posted to: europe@feddit.de
minus-square@RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish14•9 months agoA little history is appropriate here. This link is to the BASF website. It glosses over but admits that Aushwitz was a BASF work camp.
minus-squareAggressivelyPassivelinkfedilinkEnglish11•9 months agoAnd BASF was part of the IG Farben, which produced an insecticide called “Zyklon B”, which also happens to work wonderfully in gas chambers. But let’s be honest here, it’s not rust BASF is particularly bad, that’s just capitalism.
minus-square@RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-29 months agoTo be fair, Basache did invent Zykon B, but some managers split off their own company that sold it to the National Socialists to do the unthinkable murders. But working/starving the millions of prisoners to death was on Badache.
A little history is appropriate here. This link is to the BASF website. It glosses over but admits that Aushwitz was a BASF work camp.
And BASF was part of the IG Farben, which produced an insecticide called “Zyklon B”, which also happens to work wonderfully in gas chambers.
But let’s be honest here, it’s not rust BASF is particularly bad, that’s just capitalism.
To be fair, Basache did invent Zykon B, but some managers split off their own company that sold it to the National Socialists to do the unthinkable murders.
But working/starving the millions of prisoners to death was on Badache.