RE: Can We Sue Germany for WWII?
September 29, 2016 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2016 at 2:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 29, 2016 at 11:01 am)abaris Wrote:(September 29, 2016 at 10:53 am)mcolafson Wrote: "Fuck you," say American companies who made profit on suffering of foreign citizens.
When it first was deployed it was less heinous than it is now, since nobody knew what the consequences would be. The companies, in this case, really aren't as much to blame as the authorities actually using it for unintended purposes. Same as with the German Cyclon B, which wasn't developed to kill people but for pest control. The blame of the companies lies in not stepping in when their product was abused. But money talked back then as loudly as it talks now.
Well, they used it for it's intended purpose. It's a pesticide and defoliant. The idea was to remove the canopy that was providing cover, and any food crops the enemy relied on. We'd been using those chemicals (and still do) agriculturally since the 50's, we hadn't made the link in our own country either in all that time.
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