Iconic Nazi-era company Farben files for bankruptcy

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Protesters heckled I.G. Farben's administrators after the decision, which resulted from a failed land deal and leaves little for Holocaust victims

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , FRANKFURT, GERMANY
Thursday, Nov 13, 2003,Page 7

At its zenith during World War II, I.G. Farben was the world's largest chemical company and a sinister symbol of Nazi industrial might.

On Monday, the company, notorious for producing poison gas and using slave labor during the war, announced that it would file for bankruptcy.

That news may seem to come after the fact, given that Farben was dismantled by the Allies in 1952 -- its factories split among Bayer, BASF and other German chemical companies and its chief scientist condemned as a mass murderer by the Nuremburg war crimes tribunal.

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1. Reported several days ago

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