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I didn’t understand that, sorry. I can be dense sometimes.

Here’s that thread. It took awhile to put together.

Oh, ok. That’s not what I thought.

If you learned something from this post, please help me in this work— like, follow, repost. The better people understand the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis, the harder it is for Holocaust denial to take root. Education is our best defense.

Thank you!

I.G. Farben was dissolved in 1951. Its divisions became the industrial powerhouses we know as BASF (the world’s largest chemical producer), Bayer (one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world and owner of Monsanto), and Hoechst (now Aventis Deutschland).

At the Nuremberg “I.G. Farben Trial,”, 24 executives were charged and 13 convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity for use of slave labor and other atrocities at their facilities. As with most of the convicted, their sentences were relatively short.

Ultimately the SS forced labor system didn’t produce enough strategic materials to counter Allied production capacity, which swelled enormously in just a few years due to the war effort, especially in America and the USSR. Shortages persisted throughout the war, increasing at the end of course.

It produced significant output in armaments, raw materials, and goods, but productivity was low due to constant deaths. Minimal care would have made it work more efficiently, but that wasn’t the primary goal. Working people (usually Jews) to death was the goal. The labor itself was a fringe benefit.

I.G. Farben’s Buna rubber production at Auschwitz III-Monowitz ”employed” 80,000 slave laborers in 1944, but despite the scale of the operation it never reached full operational capacity before the war’s end. Overall, the system was a limited success in both economic and military terms.

Perhaps the most infamous SS/Corporate joint project was the I.G. Farben Buna-Werke at Auschwitz III-Monowitz, which produced synthetic rubber (Buna) and fuel. There were shortages in rubber and oil due to the Alied blockade which worsened with the loss of the Ploiești oil fields in Romania in ‘43.

Major industrial participants in the SS slave labor leasing system included:

—I.G.Farben (chemicals and synthetic rubber)
—Krupp (armaments)
—Siemens-Schuckertwerke (electrical equipment)
—Messerschmitt (aircraft)
—Daimler-Benz (vehicles)
—Volkswagen (automobiles, parts)

The system was designed to maximize industrial output to support the war effort without diverting German manpower. Labor camps were “death camps” in the sense that the intention was that you are worked and starved to death, albeit a little more slowly and much more painfully.

There was one advantage to having one of these “jobs.” When the genocide began, one of those jobs gave you an opportunity to survive. “Useless” people were the first to be murdered, including both the children and the elderly. They were usually killed upon arrival at the camp, after the “selection.”

The WVHA “leased” camp inmates to corporations at fixed daily rates, just a few Reichsmarks for skilled laborers, and even less for the unskilled. Of course that money went directly to the SS. Most slaves worked in the camps themselves, which were sometimes joint operations with the corporations.

In short order he had standardized and brought up to modern standards the SS accounting system, thus proving he was very capable. His capability, loyalty, and ruthless were rewarded with a rapid ascent through the ranks of the SS to become the head Administrator of the Konzentrationslager system.

The system operated through the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA) under Himmler’s protégé, Oswald Pohl. Coming from the Freikorps and the Navy, he joined the SA in 1925 and the NSDAP in 1926. Pohl was a dedicated Nazi, and in 1933 he pledged undying loyalty to Himmler personally.

Many Poles and other Slavic people from Eastern Europe were put in camps and used for slave labor. Some were abducted and sent to Germany to work as slaves for the Master Race there as well, both in industry and in German homes as maids or servants.

With the establishment of the ghetto system following the invasion of Poland in 1939, a new pool of slaves became available for exploitation, and the opportunity was not missed. Prisoners in the ghettos were given jobs of various kinds, including arms manufacturing.

Concentration camps began providing a steady supply of slave labor when they first filled up with political prisoners including communists and socialists in the 1930s. The system was greatly expanded in the following years, making room for Jews, Roma, POWs, and many others.

forced laborers wearing “OST” (Ostarbeiter) badges are liberated from a camp near Łódź, January 1945, Łódź Poland, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of an unknown Russian archive, 19317. 

The Third Reich was a slave state.

As early as 1937, the Nazis used slave labor for economic advantage. Most Jewish men in Germany were forced to work for one government agency or another. During the rearmament campaign they used slave labor to ameliorate the labor shortages. 🧵

No hate to this person whose heart is in the right place but perhaps has their facts a bit askew. This is not a well known topic, and I’m not here to judge, but to share knowledge.

I’m not quite sure what this is saying, but the Nazis attempted to monetize the concentration camps by selling slave labor to industry. I’m working on a thread about their slave labor system, but it’s a LOT to cover on BlueSky. Gotta discuss the enslavement of Slavs, too. People are unaware.

Stacy Cay (Pronouns at 30k) @stacycay If a trans woman became the world champion in bubble blowing you'd hear some shit about male saliva density and lip stiffness grippy3000 fun fact one of the world champions in pepper- eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper grippy3000 update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna "the chilli queen" skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively, she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

You don’t need an excuse! Make them because they are easy and delicious! Yes, they look fancy, but truly they aren’t hard to make. You brown them, then bake them. Easy, peasy.

Truth. I make several of them for my family.

fondant potatoes

I made fondant potatoes tonight to go with a rack of lamb. I was looking for a potato dish that didn’t have tons of butter. Its flavor comes from the chicken stock it is roasted in, not fat. The lamb is one of my husband’s favorite dishes. 🍽️

Recipe: https://www.recipetineats.com/fondant-potatoes/

DSA chapters from LA, Philly, DC, Oakland, Chicago, NYC, Baltimore, and Detroit. There is a notable lack of Black folks.

more ivory-inclined folks

a group of sunscreen enthusiasts in LA

yet more people of the marshmallow majority

She means this DSA.
#DSASoWhite

I honestly have no idea who this person is or why she’s in the news. I’m OK with that, so please don’t tell me.

So...the "revolution" turned out to be a burn book of Democrats, mostly Black women, who voted for Kamala Harris and who called out the anti-Blackness in the Pro-Palestine movement.

Apparently they missed the part where those records were sealed by the court and are therefore unavailable even to the President. Or maybe they think a President should overrule the ruling of a Federal judge in an unconstitutional power grab. Either way, no.