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With very few exceptions, German industry gave its wholehearted support to the Nazi war machine and knowingly and actively participated in the implementation of the Final Solution (Endlosung) of the 'Jewish Question.' It did so for a number of reasons related to the furtherance of corporate interests; and it acted with at best a crippling moral indifference to the suffering and fate of the Jews. Those industries most directly involved were the major manufacturers of arms and critical raw materials, such as the huge Krupp and I.G. Farben enterprises, which employed large numbers of Jewish death camp inmates as slave laborers under inhumane conditions, as did many other companies, large and small; and the private vendors and suppliers of the critical implements of death, carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide gas contained in prussic acid crystals (Zyklon B), and of the gas ovens, furnaces and chimneys used in the death camps to kill humans or dispose of their corpses. Many other industrial firms were involved in the Holocaust, such as the pharmaceutical firms which supported hideous medical experiments in the camps. The sanctions imposed o

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camps and because of their importance to the German war effort; however, many other firms employed Jews as slave laborers. The list includes all of Germany's arms manufacturers, its chemical producers, its coal and other mining firms and its air, sea and land equipment manufacturers, including major auto companies such as Mercedes and Porsche-Volkswagen. Firms which avoided entirely or minimized the use of slave labor included the Stuttgart auto parts manufacturer Robert Bosch and the large electrical manufacturers, Siemens and AEG. Relations between Krupp and Farben and the Nazi regime. Krupp, which had been in the iron and steel business since medieval times, based on the rich iron ore and coal deposits of the Ruhr valley, had been the principal arms supplier to the Kingdom of Prussia and modern German governments. By 1933 it was the leading steel producer in Europe and a principal supplier of a wide array of metal-based armaments, shells, artillery, battleships, submarines, etc. to the Nazi regime. I.G. Farben was Germany's largest company. It, too, originally developed in the Ruhr because its original chemical inventions were derived from coal gases. By 1933, it was a vast international concern, which had been consolidated in
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