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The crimes of I.G. Farben: during WWII, I.G. Farben, a synthetic-fuels manufacturer for the German war machine, was a major supporter of the Nazi regime and a willing co-conspirator in the Holocaust.

The New American

| November 27, 2006 | Behreandt, Dennis | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

March 8, 1943 was the day when the Nazi S.S. came for Norbert Wollheim and his family. With his wife and his three-year-old son, Wollheim was sent to the Grasse Hamburgerstrasse "collecting camp," a way station on the blood-stained path to the Nazi's "final solution." A few days later, the family was sent to Auschwitz. Wollheim would never see his family again. "On arriving at the station at Auschwitz," Wollheim recalled at the Nuremberg Trials, "I was separated from my wife and child and have not seen them since."

Wollheim was one of the "lucky" ones. Along with about 220 other men, he was separated from the other prisoners who were condemned to immediate death ...

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