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Re:Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover by pinaceae on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:04AM (#12496944)
a bit more complicated - IG Farben also produced multiple Nobel Prices in Medicine, represented the merged version of pretty much the complete German chemical industry.

AGFA, Bayer, BASF, Sanofi all trace back to IG Farben.

Not unlikely that you personally are alive because of their contributions to medicine. Unlike say Coca Cola or McDonalds. But yes, at the same time IG Farben used slave labor in WW2, experimented on humans and had a subsidiary produce Zyklon B.

History is complicated.

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Re:Bayer confirms $66bn Monsanto takeover by flyinghamster on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:58AM (#12498267)
WW2 was in some ways as much a war between corporations as it was a war between governments. Not to mention, some corporations happily played both sides of the conflict; ITT [0] and General Motors [1] among the more notorious examples.

[0] http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_... (drawing on other sources)

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Nazis-rode-to-war-on-G...

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