History 2145A/B Lecture Notes - Wernher Von Braun, Operation Epsilon, Ig Farben
28 Apr 2012
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For some reason not totally known, the americans were eager to take in nazi scientists. However, it had to be questioned where there loyalties would lie. Expecting war to come, and believes that a conglomerate would be the ideal solution. Given a nobel prize for chemistry for developing a cheap pesticide, using the knowledge of the knowledge of the farmers. The devil"s chemists : promised the nazis that they would be able to build anything they needed (chemicals, photography, weapons, bombs, rubbers, etc. Auschwitz: supplies the labour for this conglomerate, people did not want to purchase what was made, because it was produced using slave labour. Technically it wasn"t a concentration camp, but it was at everyone was monitored at all times. There were plans from the west to bomb monowitz when the workers were gone, to get rid of the slave production. Monowitz was a work concentration camp that belonged to the devil"s chemists.
