Companies Affiliated With Concentration Camps

From "Chronique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, eds Chronique 1990. Annexe 3 page 690. Scan for the famous companies both inside and outside of Germany, including the U.S.

Industry in the Third Reich and the work-force of deportees:

In CAP-s is given the company name
* -denotes the name of the Camp, followed by the name of the town or location where the work was done.

ADLER SA
*Natzwiller-Struthof
Frankfurt-Am-Main

AEG
*Stutthof
Thorn-Torun
*Riga-Kaiserwald

ASTRA
*Flossenburg
Chemnitz

AUTO-UNION
*Flossenburg
Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Zschopau
Zwickau

BMW
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Abteroda
Eisenach-Thuer
*Dachau
Ellach
Blaichach
Kaufbeuren
Lochhausen
Moosach
*Natzwiller-Struthof
Geisenheim
*Papenburg
Rastdorf-am-Werlte
*Sachsenhausen
Konigswusterhausen

MESSERSCHMITT
*Dachau
Asbach-Baumerheim
Augsburg
Augsburg-Pfersee
Burgau
Durach-Kottern
Fischen
Gablingen
Horgau-Pfersee
Kaufering
Moosach
*Flossenburg
Joanngergenstadt
*Mauthausen
Camp Central

METALL UNION
Auschwitz-Oswiecim
Camp Central

OPTA RADIO
*Flossenburg
Wolkenburg

OPTIQUE IENA
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Weimar-Fischtenheim

PHOTO AGFA
*Dachau
Munich

PUCH
*Mauthausen
Graz

RHEINMETALL BORSIG AG
*Buchenwald and Dora Mittelbau
Dusseldorf

SHELL
*Neuengamme
Hamburg
Geilenburgh

SCHNEIDER
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Leipzig-Lindenthal
Meuselwitz
Raucha

SIEMENS
*Auschwitz-Oswiecim
Bobrek
Trostberg

DAIMLER BENZ
*Schirmeck (At the Rhine)
Haslach

DORNIER
*Dachau
Aufkirch-Kaufbeuren
Kaufering
Trutzkirch-Titzing

ERLA
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Thekla/Leipzig
Leipzig-Lindenthal
*Flossenburg
Mulchen-Psankt-Micheln

FORD
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Cologne Fordwerke

GOLDSCHMITT
*Gross-Rosen
Langenbielau-Bielwa

HEINKEL
*Buchenwald and Dora - Mittelbau
Gandersheim
*Mauthausen
Wien-Schwechat
*Natzwiller-Struthof (at the Rhine)
Zuffenhausen
*Ravensbruck
Barth/Ostsee
*Berlin-Shonefeld
*Rostock-Marienehe
*Schwarzenforst
*Sachsenhausen
Oranienburg

I.G. FARBEN INDUSTRIES
*Auschwitz-Oswiecim
Camp Central
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Wolfen-Bitterfeld
*Gross-Rosen
Waldenburg

JUNKER
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Aschersleben
Helberstadt
Tarthun

KRUPP
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Essen
*Gross-Rosen
Langenbielau-Bielawa
Markstadt-Laskowitz
*Flossenburg
Nuremberg
*Ravensbruck
Camp Central
*Furstenberg
*Neubranbdenburg

SOLVAY
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Bernburg

STEYR
*Mauthausen
Aflens
Steyr-Municholz
*Radom

TELEFUNKEN
*Gross-Rosen
Langenbielau-Bielawa

VALENTIN
*Neuengamme
Brema-Farge

VISTRA
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Wolfen-Bitterfeld

VOLKSWAGEN
*Neuegamme
Fallersleben
Wolfsburg

ZEISS-IKON
*Flossenburg
Dresden

ZEITZ
*Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
Gleina "Willy"

ZEPPELIN
*Dachau
Friedrichshaven

Monsanto
Ciba Switzerland [Novartis]
Searle
Eli Lilly
Roche
Bayer A.G.

Germany's IG Farben cancels shareholder meeting

09:15 a.m. Aug 12, 1997 Eastern

FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuter) - The company disposing of assets from the notorious Nazi German chemicals giant IG Farben said Tuesday it was dropping plans to hold a shareholder meeting in Frankfurt later this month after a hotel canceled a contract for the meeting.

A spokeswoman for IG Farbenindustrie i.A. , a shell company formed after World War Two, said that about 200 shareholders had been expected for the annual meeting planned for Aug. 22.

She said it was too late to reschedule the meeting. Demonstrators had threatened to protest outside the hotel against IG Farben, which produced Zyklon B gas for the Nazis' death camps.

"The contract was canceled at short notice and the meeting cannot take place," the spokeswoman said.

No one at the hotel could immediately be reached for comment. Several Frankfurt hotels have shied way from hosting the meeting in recent years, wary of the possible protests.

IG Farben was split up after the war into BASF AG, Bayer AG and Hoechst AG, but a shell company, IG Farben in Liquidation, was left in existence to handle asset claims.

The liquidation has been taking a long time because of the company's ongoing fight to reclaim assets seized at the end of the war, above all property in east Germany that was nationalized by Soviet occupiers and which IG Farben was not able to try to reclaim until after German unification in 1990.

IG Farben was the world's fourth-largest company until the end of World War Two. It bought concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis to work in forced labor camps -- the largest of which was part of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.

IG Farben in Liquidation paid 30 million marks ($16 million at current exchange rates) in compensation to the Jewish Claims Conference in 1957, but it has not paid any compensation on an individual basis to Jews or to ex-slaves in eastern Europe.

Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited