With coupons, Deco, Scarce. IG Farben was a German chemical industry conglomerate, notorious for its role in the Holocaust. Its name is taken from Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (Syndicate [literally, “community of interests”] of dye-making corporations). The company was formed in 1925 from a number of major chemical companies that had been working together closely since World War I. During its heyday, IG Farben was the largest chemical company in the world and the fourth largest overall industrial concern. Following the Nazi takeover of Germany, IG Farben became involved in numerous war crimes during World War II. Most notoriously, the firm’s pro-Nazi leadership openly and knowingly collaborated with the Nazi government to produce the large quantities of Zyklon B necessary to gas to death millions of Jews and other “undesirables” at various extermination camps during the Holocaust. The firm ceased to exist following the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, when the company was seized by the Allies; its assets were utterly liquidated in 1952, and many executives being imprisoned (and several executed) at the Nuremberg Trials for their roles in the atrocities. Engulfed by lawsuits and universal condemnation after the war’s end, the company itself still nominally exists, although merely as an asset-less shell with the sole stated goal of continuing to do business so it may pay many millions of marks in reparations to the victims of its many crimes. After such reparations are paid and any ongoing court cases are ended, the company (again by court order) will be permanently dissolved. This certificate is in aEF condition for its age. NB: No stock value, only for collectors of old stock and bond certificates. Order not paid in 3 consecutive days will be cancelled automatically without notice. The item “Germany 1953 IG Farbenindustrie 200.000 RM Deco Uncancelled coupons Scarce Rare” is in sale since Wednesday, August 28, 2013. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Stocks & Bonds, Scripophily\World\Europe”. The seller is “assmannsite” and is located in Luis Guillon, Buenos Aires. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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