During the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in 1946, Chief Prosecutor Telford Taylor made a scathing accusation against a German Industrial cartel:
“These companies, not the lunatic Nazi fanatics, are the main war criminals. If the guilt of these criminals is not brought to daylight and if they are not punished, they will pose a much greater threat to the future peace of the world than Hitler if he were still alive,”
The cartel in question was Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farben or Association of Common Interests, IG Farben in short. The cartel was formed in 1925 after German pharmaceutical and chemical major companies, Bayer, BASF and Hoechst, joined forces.