1997: Das Chemnitzer Programm
Exposing the German chemical/pharmaceutical companies as the main corporate interests and largest benefactors of the conquest of Europe during World War II the Chemnitz Program, for the first time, brought into the open the facts that the IG Farben cartel financed the rise to power of Hitler; robbed the chemical factories and oilfields of occupied Europe and built the largest chemical plant in Europe in the Polish city of Auschwitz, using Slave Labor from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
24 IG Farben managers were tried for mass murder and other crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg War Tribunal. US Chief Prosecutor Telford Taylor concluded that, “Without the IG Farben oil and drug cartel, World War II would not have been possible” and that they shared in the responsibility for the death of millions of people and the destruction of half of Europe . The IG Farben oil and drug cartel was subsequently dismantled and split up into Bayer, BASF and Hoechst (now Sanofi-Aventis).
The Chemnitz Program demanded that this ‘business with disease’ conducted by the pharmaceutical industry be brought to an end and that its leaders be charged with crimes against humanity; that governmental and other supporters of the Pharma-Cartel in Germany and around the world also be held legally responsible for these crimes and that the preservation and improvement of health immediately be declared an inalienable human right.