List of companies involved in the Holocaust

This list includes corporations and their documented collaboration in the implementation of the Holocaust, forced labour and other German war crimes.

Company Year established Place of origin ActivityAccumulatoren-Fabrik AFA (later BAE Batterien GmbH) 1890 Hagen, Berlin-Oberschöneweide, Hannover (1938); Mühlhausen, Vienna, Poznań (1943) Forced labour / slave labour. AFA used concentration camp prisoners in production. A "fluctuation" of 80 prisoners per month was planned as part of the "extermination through labour".Adler (cars and motorcycle) 1900 Frankfurt In 1944, the company applied to the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office for allocation of concentration camp prisoners. This was implemented, and the prisoners were housed on the premises of Plant I on Weilburger Straße. Between August 1944 and 24 March 1945, around 1,600 people were employed in the satellite camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, codenamed Katzbach. About a third of the concentration camp prisoners died in Frankfurt; more than 700 were taken to other camps because they were too weak to work, so that ultimately only a small proportion of those locked up in the Adler works survived. On 24 March 1945, around 350 prisoners were driven on a death march to the Buchenwald concentration camp via Hanau, Schluechtern, Fulda, and Hünfeld.Leben und Arbeiten in Gallus und Griesheim e. V. auf den Seiten des LAGG.AEG 1883 Germany During World War II, the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG used large numbers of forced labourers as well as concentration camp prisoners, under inhuman conditions of work.The Mazal Library: NMT, Volume VII, pp. 567 (Document NI-391 pages 565–568), The Farben Case The Mazal Library: NMT, Volume VII, pp. 557 (Document D-203 pages 557–562), The Farben Case Allianz 1890 Berlin, Germany Provided insurance for facilities and workers at concentration camps.Associated Press 1846 New York, United States Censorship and cooperation with Nazi Germany.Astrawerke AG (ASTRA) 1921 Chemnitz Astra produced military hardware, utilizing forced labor from 500 female inmates of the Flossenbürg concentration camp.Audi (Auto Union) 1910 Zwickau, Germany The company employed forced labour at a large scale during World War II. Among others it exploited slave labour at Leitmeritz concentration camp. According to a 2014 report commissioned by the company, Auto Union bore "moral responsibility" for the 4,500 deaths that occurred at Leitmeritz.Baccarat 1764 Baccarat, France Produced propaganda items for Nazi State and Vichy Collaborating State.Bahlsen 1889 Hannover, Germany Employed about 800 forced labourers between 1940 and 1945.BASF 1865 Ludwigshafen, Germany Collaborated with Degussa AG – now Evonik Industries – and IG Farben – to produce sodas used in Zyklon B – utilized in concentration camps to commit mass murder. For example, BASF, leader of the chemical branch of IG Farben, built a chemical factory at the IG Farben factory in Auschwitz III-Monowitz, called "IG Auschwitz". It was the largest chemical factory in the world at that time. IG Farben became notorious through its production of Zyklon-B, the lethal gas used for the mass murder of Jews and other prisoners in German extermination camps during the Holocaust.Bayer 1863 Barmen, Germany Forced labour and medical experimentation in concentration camps, production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals supplies of Nazi Germany.BMW 1916 Munich, Germany Forced labour from concentration camps.Bosch1886Stuttgart, GermanyAt least 20,000 people were used by Bosch as forced laborers, with around 3,100 working at its affiliate ELFI, a hidden factory near Hildesheim owned by Bosch during the re-armament of the German Wehrmacht. Later renamed Trillke-Werke, the facility produced light machines, magnetos, and starter motors for tanks, traction engines, and trucks used by the Wehrmacht. Bosch was a major producer of fittings for motor vehicles and plane engines, making it indispensable to the Third Reich's war effort. Bosch managing directors asked for foreign workers from the Reich Ministry of Armaments. Prisoners of war were used in the factories, against the Geneva Convention. They received no payment, their wages being sent to the Stalag labor camp. Ten to twelve-hour shifts were imposed daily with no leave, while wooden barracks featured poor sanitary conditions: one bucket and bowl per room, no running water, and inadequate heating for winter.