With respect to stocks, I haven't a clue. With respect to anything, and everything else, my own thought is that we are back to where we were months ago, contemplating the fate of Clara Haber.
For the rest of the thread - the life of Fritz and Clara Haber cry out for the hand of a good novel writer.
Fritz was employed by that extraordinarily ambigious corporation, I.G. Farben. During World War I, he developed the first deadly gas used in war, mustard gas. I won't belabor the point here, but if you are so inclined, I suggest to you that your studies will reveal that the use of chemical warfare was at least as morally ambiguous as the atom bomb - more so, I suggest, because it was first tested on civilians (prisoners of war - how is that for moral compromise?) so there was no question of the devastation.
Poor Clara, Fritz's wife - she was also a chemist. She tried to persuade him not to follow through with his research, but he prevailed, and she committed suicide rather than live with the pain - in 1915.
Poor Fritz - he was Jewish. Even though he sold his soul to IG Farben, even though he got a Nobel Prize for developing artificial fertilizer, when the Nazis took over, he was treated like scum.
The history of IG Farben is told, inadequately, in Thomas Pyncheon's "Gravity's Rainbow."
The true story of the moral ambiguity and compromise of the relationships between US corporations and Nazi corporations before and during WWII has never been told, I believe. But I also believe that it was never as bad as the worst that could be imagined. The truth just doesn't seem to be part of anyone's agenda. |
