Bidspirit auction | 1940 I.G. FARBEN STOCK CERTIFICATE

1940 I.G. FARBEN STOCK CERTIFICATE 1940 (ZYKLON B) - 1940 I.G. FARBEN STOCK CERTIFICATE 1940 (ZYKLON B) Rare canceled stock certificate for I.G. Farben AG Frankfurt/Main over 1000 Reichsmark date March 1940. Zyklon B was supplied by an IG Farben subsidiary, Degesch. IG Farben's 42.5 percent of the stock in Degesch translated into three seats on its Administrative Committee. Between 1942 and 1945 a cyanide-based pesticide, Zyklon B, was used to kill over one million people, mostly Jews, in gas chambers in Europe, including in the Auschwitz II and Majdanek extermination camps in German-occupied Poland. IG Farben's 42.5 percent of the stock in Degesch translated into three seats on its Administrative Committee. I.G. Farben was also directly involved with using slave labor at the large BUNA rubber factory and building the concentration camp MONOWITZ, a subcamp of Auschwitz. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. The company's infamous logo is embossed in the lower left in white and the stock is watermarked with the famous BAYER logo.