Buna Werke
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Buna Rubber was named by BASF
Ag, and through 1988 (at the least) Buna was remaining a trade name
of BASF.
According to Joseph Borkin in his book entitled "The Crimes and Punishment of IG Farben", BASF Ag was the majority financier for Auschwitz 4, a camp that contained a production site for production of Buna rubber
(Buna Werke??). Borkin writes that Primo Levi
was one of the upper level chemist
s at this Buna plant, and was able, with the assistance of his colleagues, to keep other prisoners alive, but not producing Buna rubber at a viable (commercial) rate that would have assisted the Nazi effort.
BASF
BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Germany. BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik . Today, the four letters are a registered trademark and the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, and Zurich Stock...
Ag, and through 1988 (at the least) Buna was remaining a trade name
Trade name
A trade name, also known as a trading name or a business name, is the name which a business trades under for commercial purposes, although its registered, legal name, used for contracts and other formal situations, may be another....
of BASF.
According to Joseph Borkin in his book entitled "The Crimes and Punishment of IG Farben", BASF Ag was the majority financier for Auschwitz 4, a camp that contained a production site for production of Buna rubber
Rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...
(Buna Werke??). Borkin writes that Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
was one of the upper level chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
s at this Buna plant, and was able, with the assistance of his colleagues, to keep other prisoners alive, but not producing Buna rubber at a viable (commercial) rate that would have assisted the Nazi effort.