Buna-Werke

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Buna-Werke was a synthetic rubber and fuel plant operated by IG Farben near Auschwitz, notorious for its use of forced labor from the adjacent Monowitz concentration camp during World War II.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf industrial facility
synthetic rubber plant
affiliatedOrganization German war ministry
SS
associatedWith Auschwitz III-Monowitz NERFINISHED
Holocaust
Nazi war economy
constructionBegan 1941
constructionBy IG Farben engineers
country Nazi Germany
employed civilian workers
concentration camp prisoners
forced laborers
era Nazi era
guardedBy SS personnel
hasGermanName IG Farben Buna-Werke Auschwitz
historicalLocation Monowitz
Upper Silesia
occupied Poland
industry chemical industry
synthetic rubber industry
laborSource Auschwitz III-Monowitz prisoners
Jewish prisoners
other persecuted groups
linkedTo crimes against humanity
locatedNear Auschwitz
Monowitz concentration camp
notableFor high prisoner mortality
inhumane working conditions
use of forced labor
operator IG Farben
ownedBy IG Farben
partOf IG Farben industrial complex at Auschwitz
Nazi armaments program
plannedCapacity large-scale synthetic rubber production
product synthetic fuel
synthetic rubber (Buna)
purpose production of synthetic fuel
production of synthetic rubber
status defunct plant
subjectOf Holocaust studies
Nuremberg IG Farben trial
war crimes investigations
timePeriod World War II
usedForcedLaborFrom Auschwitz concentration camp complex NERFINISHED
Monowitz concentration camp NERFINISHED
usedLaborSystem prisoner labor
slave labor
victimCount thousands of prisoners

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Auschwitz III-Monowitz
associatedWith

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