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Corruptio optimi pessima!'
Grinned Sir Henry Bessemer.
'Judicio vulgi demens!'
Snorted Sir William Siemens.
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E.C. Bentley (Biography for Beginners)
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George Stephenson, with a sagacity of mind in advance of the science of his day, answered, when asked what was the ultimate cause of motion of his locomotive engine, ‘that it went by the bottled-up rays of the sun.
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Carl Wilhelm Siemens
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Like conventional weapons, most digital weapons have two parts—the missile, or delivery system, responsible for spreading the malicious payload and installing it onto machines, and the payload itself, which performs the actual attack, such as stealing data or doing other things to infected machines. In this case, the payload was the malicious code that targeted the Siemens software and PLCs.
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Kim Zetter (Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon)
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While infrasonic vibrations at around 6 hertz may influence the brain and produce various effects in humans, it seems that there must be other types of energy, or other frequencies, to explain phenomena that were noted to have occurred at the Great Pyramid more than one hundred years ago. Sir William Siemens, an Anglo-German engineer, metallurgist, and inventor, experienced a strange energy phenomenon at the Great Pyramid when an Arab guide called his attention to the fact that, while standing on the summit of the pyramid with hands outstretched, he could hear a sharp ringing noise. Raising his index finger, Siemens felt a prickling sensation.
Later on, while drinking out of a wine bottle he had brought along, he experienced a slight electric shock. Feeling that some further observations were in order, Siemens then wrapped a moistened newspaper around the bottle, converting it into a Leyden jar. After he held it above his head for a while, this improvised Leyden jar became charged with electricity to such an extent that sparks began to fly. Reportedly, Siemens' Arab guides were not too happy with their tourist's experiment and accused him of practicing witchcraft. Peter Tompkins wrote, "One of the guides tried to seize Siemens' companion, but Siemens lowered the bottle towards him and gave the Arab such a jolt that he was knocked senseless to the ground. Recovering, the guide scrambled to his feet and took off down the Pyramid, crying loudly.
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Christopher Dunn (The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt)
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Because both Birkenau and Auschwitz are infamous names and a blot on the history of mankind it is necessary to explain how they differed. The railroad separated one from the other. When the selectors told off the deportees on the station platform “Right!” or “Left!” they were sending them to either Birkenau or Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a slave camp. Hard as life was at Auschwitz it was better than Birkenau. For the latter was definitely an extermination camp, and as such was never mentioned in the reports. It was part of the colossal guilt of the German rulers and was rarely referred to, nor was its existence ever admitted until the troops of the liberating Allies exposed the secret to the world. At Auschwitz many war factories were in operation, such as the D.A.W. (Deutsches-Aufrustungswerk), Siemens, and Krupp. All were devoted to the production of armaments. The prisoners detailed to work there were highly privileged compared to those who were not given such employment. But even those who did not work productively were more fortunate than the prisoners in Birkenau. The latter were merely awaiting their turn to be gassed and cremated. The unpleasant job of handling the soon-to-be corpses, and later the ashes, were relegated to groups called “kommandos.” The sole task of the Birkenau personnel was to camouflage the real reason for the camp: extermination. When the internees in Auschwitz, or in other camps in the area, were no longer judged useful they were dispatched to Birkenau to die in the ovens. It was as simple and cold-blooded as that.
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Olga Lengyel (Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz)
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Ihmiset ovat suloisia, itkettää monesti kun niitä näkee. Korvia ja kaulaa, kenkiä, lahkeita. Takamusten päältä vaatteet ovat arimmat kiukun vilahtelulle.
Vanhat ovat kovin arkoja, kun he inhoavat itseään usein niin paljon, eivätkä voi mitään itselleen. Vihaahan sitä, kun ei kykene hallitsemaan edes ruumistaan ja tilaisuus harjoitteluun on ohi. Periaatteessa hapristuminen on kaunista. Se vaan ei tapahdu. Ensin pitäisi kuivua, mutta kun tulee limaa ja visvaa, sylkeä ja kuolaa ja vaahtoa suupieliin...
Turhamaisuus on jumalallista alkuperää. Kunnianosoitus ja ylistys. Kun turhamaisuus menee, mureneminen ja romahtaminen ja romuuntuminen kaunistaa vielä hetken.
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Anneli Pääkkönen (Sielu, siemen, keiju, aasi.)
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Siemens had to go to every deployment of their software worldwide and change the password. Getting
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Ted Koppel (Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath)
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For long hours, we labored in the Siemens-Schuckert factory near camp, where we made electric components for submarines.
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Ellen Keith (The Dutch Wife)
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With her strong GPA and merely quite good scores, busy athletic schedule, and character-building volunteer efforts, Portia Nathan’s application would have left this room with a fatal designation of Academic 3/Non-Academic 4, meaning that in the real world her scholastic skills were solid, but in Princeton’s supercharged applicant pool they were unremarkable, and that although she had been busy within her school community, she had not been a leader within that community (NonAc 3) or distinguished herself at the state level (NonAc 2), let alone accomplished something on a national or international scale (NonAc 1). NonAc 1’s, of course, were rather thin on the ground, even in Princeton’s applicant pool. They were Olympic athletes, authors of legitimately published books, Siemens prizewinners, working film or Broadway actors, International Tchaikovsky Competition violinists, and, yes, national judo champions, and they tended to be easy admits, provided they were strong students, which they usually were.
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Jean Hanff Korelitz (Admission)
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Kuolemankin olisin voinut hyväksyä. Mutta tämä. Maailmassa kaikkeen, mitättömimpäänkin, ja jokaiseen, oli upotettu tuhon siemen. Olitko muuta kuin tuhon, entropian vertauskuva. Kaiken tieltään hövittävä, minut kuoppaan ajava tuli.
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Juha Seppälä (Kuoppakaupunki)
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Alman elektrik mühendisi ve sanayici Werner von Siemens, Prusya hükümetini şöyle uyaracaktı: “Son zamanlarda İngiltere, Fransa ve Amerika, yani hayatta kalma mücadelesinde en tehlikeli düşmanlarımız olan bu ülkeler, bilimsel üstünlüğün büyük anlamının farkına vardılar . . . [ve] bilimsel ilerlemeyi teşvik eden kurumlar oluşturmak için öğretimde iyileştirmeler yoluyla, doğa bilimleri müfredatını geliştirmek için gayretle çalıştılar.” Endişeli bir Alman'ın Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nden, Fransa ve İngiltere ile aynı cümlede bahsetmesi, ABD için kesinlikle bir ilerleme ölçütüydü.
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Mark Jaffe (The Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science)
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The farmers had grown proud and haughty. They ate better than anyone else in Germany now. And, like Volkswagen and Siemens, they had slaves. All they had to do was feed the local Nazi power elite, and they could have all the slaves they wanted.
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Edith Hahn Beer (The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust)
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Now GE has connections with Siemens over here, they worked on the V-2 guidance,
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Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
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Lucas was courting a range of other potential buyers at the same time, including Siemens, Hallmark, General Motors’ EDS division, and Philips. But as one deal after another fell through, the balance of power tilted toward Steve, who didn’t need the group as much as Lucas needed the money. So he was perfectly willing to play tough himself. “At one point,” says Barnes, who helped with the negotiations, “the delays went on forever and he just went and told one of their executives to ‘fuck off.’ One of the Lucas team said, ‘You can’t say that to one of our EVPs.’ ‘Yes I can,’ he replied. ‘And fuck you, too.’
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Brent Schlender (Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
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On paper, the Siemens-Mitsubishi offer values Alstom's energy assets almost 15% higher than GE's bid. But Alstom would only get €7 billion ($9.5 billion) in cash from the German-Japanese duo, versus €12.35 billion from GE.
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Anonymous
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Reclamações sobre privacidade na internet,marco civil,mas não fazemos a menor ideia do que ocorre por de trás das cortinas:
"...O Worm(vírus de computador mais sofisticado) Stuxnet, a princípio criado em parceria pelos Estados Unidos e por Israel, cumpriu sua missão e invadiu um sistema de controle industrial da Siemens conectado aos motores das centrífugas iranianas responsáveis pelo enriquecimento de urânio, como parte do programa nuclear daquele país. Quando o Stuxnet confirmou que havia encontrado o alvo, transformou-se e começou a alterar a velocidade dos motores das centrífugas , dessincronizando-os a ponto de interromper a atividade.
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Al Gore (The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change)
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There were also 45 sub-camps at Auschwitz, each of which housed prisoners working at a factory serving a German company, such as Siemens-Schuckert and Krupp. 28 of these camps served companies involved in the armaments industry and the camps housed from several dozen to several thousand prisoners. Among the industries represented at the satellite camps were metal works, foundries and coal mines although prisoners were also made to work at farming and forestry.
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Larry Berg (Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp (Auschwitz, Holocaust, Jewish, History, Eyewitness Account, World War 2 Book 1))
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WiAutomation
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Eric Spiegel, the head of Siemens’ US arm, laid out a vision not that far removed from Ms Huang’s when he spoke at a breakfast in Washington hosted by the McKinsey Global Institute, the consultancy’s think-tank. The German engineering company, he said, would soon begin delivering spare parts to customers via email and 3D printers, also avoiding physical borders and the usual logistical complexities of global trade. But the advances in business are also coming up against fundamental debates about privacy. The Edward Snowden revelations of US online snooping have sparked a worldwide debate about privacy and the internet. Receiving less attention is the way international trade negotiations are trying to deal with what limits, if any, ought to be set on the flow of data around the globe and how to prepare for a digital future that is already a reality in some sectors. The negotiation of a 12-country Transpacific trade partnership (TPP) has sparked debate in Australia and New Zealand over whether companies ought to be allowed to store personal banking and medical data in foreign countries, or if such sensitive information should even be allowed to cross borders freely.
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Anonymous
Kristin Harmel (The Room on Rue Amélie)
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Life is not lived in a silo. Artificial constructs may be useful for categorization, but fail to capture the true richness and connectivity of knowledge.
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George Siemens (Knowing Knowledge)
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We exist in multiple domains: Physical, Cognitive, Emotional and Spiritual. It is to our own ill that we consider any one domain above the others. We are most alive, most human, and most complete when we see the full color of multi-domain continuums.
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George Siemens (Knowing Knowledge)
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Members of the boards of directors at IG Farben, Siemens, Krupp, Volkswagen, and other major companies that desired large numbers of forced laborers personally took on the task of high-level liaison with the SS on labor matters.
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Christopher Simpson (The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Forbidden Bookshelf))
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In late 2004, countering the conventional wisdom that the outsourcing boom meant Western companies' outsourcing to Eastern resources, Bharti made front‐page headlines in the Wall Street Journal for “reverse outsourcing”—that is, by reaching agreements with IBM and three network equipment vendors, Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens—to carry out Gupta's plan.7 Under the network equipment deals, Bharti would pay for capacity only once it had been used by customers. IBM committed to certain IT service levels and would get a percentage of revenue.
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John Mullins (Break the Rules!: The Six Counter-Conventional Mindsets of Entrepreneurs That Can Help Anyone Change the World)
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A different business model was necessary if capitalist firms were to take full advantage of dwindling recording costs. This chapter argues that the new business model that eventually emerged is a powerful new type of firm: the platform.10 Often arising out of internal needs to handle data, platforms became an efficient way to monopolise, extract, analyse, and use the increasingly large amounts of data that were being recorded. Now this model has come to expand across the economy, as numerous companies incorporate platforms: powerful technology companies (Google, Facebook, and Amazon), dynamic start-ups (Uber, Airbnb), industrial leaders (GE, Siemens), and agricultural powerhouses (John Deere, Monsanto), to name just a few. What are platforms?11 At the most general level, platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact.
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Nick Srnicek (Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux))
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The first type is that of advertising platforms (e.g. Google, Facebook), which extract information on users, undertake a labour of analysis, and then use the products of that process to sell ad space. The second type is that of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Salesforce), which own the hardware and software of digital-dependent businesses and are renting them out as needed. The third type is that of industrial platforms (e.g. GE, Siemens), which build the hardware and software necessary to transform traditional manufacturing into internet-connected processes that lower the costs of production and transform goods into services. The fourth type is that of product platforms (e.g. Rolls Royce, Spotify), which generate revenue by using other platforms to transform a traditional good into a service and by collecting rent or subscription fees on them. Finally, the fifth type is that of lean platforms (e.g. Uber, Airbnb), which attempt to reduce their ownership of assets to a minimum and to profit by reducing costs as much as possible.
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Nick Srnicek (Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux))
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La vida no es ni triste ni alegre, mi niña. La vida es redonda como una naranja. Ahora, dígame vos dónde termina la tristeza y dónde empieza la alegría.
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Sandra Siemens (La linternita mágica)
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TABLE OF GERMAN COMPANIES AND MAIN SS CONCENTRATION CAMPS REPORTED TO BE ACTIVE IN EXPLOITATION OF FORCED LABOR DURING THE THIRD REICH Auschwitz AEG (electronics) [5] Barthl (construction) [5] Bata Schlesische Schuhwerke (leather, shoes, and factory construction) [10] Benton-Monteur-Bau (construction) [10] Berle Hoch- und Tiefbau (construction) [10] Berliner Baugesellschaft (construction) [10] BRABAG (mining, synthetic fuel) [3] Breitenbach Montanbau [10] Borsig-Koks-Werk (coal processing) [10] Charlottengrube (Hermann-Göring-Werke) (tunnel construction) [10] Concordia Kohlenbergwerk (coal processing) [10] Deutsche Gasrusswerke, Gleiwitz [5] [8] Dyckerhoff & Widman (construction materials) [5] Egefeld (construction) [10] Emmerich Machold (textiles) [10] Energie-Versorgung-Oberschlesien AG (electrical construction for Elektrizitätswerk “Walter”) [10] Erdöl Raffinerie Trzebinia GmbH (oil refining) [10] Fürstengrube GmbH (coal mining) [10] Fürstlich Plessische Bergwerks AG (coal processing) [10] Godula (factory construction) [10] Grün und Bilfinger (construction) [10] Gute Hoffnung Janinagrube (coal mining) [10] Heinkel (aircraft components, munitions) [5] [10] Hubertushütte (coal processing) [10] IG Farben—Buna Werke (construction, synthetic fuel) [3] [4] [5] [8] [10] Junkers (aircraft) [5] Klotz und Co. (construction) [10] Königshütte Metallwerke (metal works) [10] Königs- und-Bismarckhütte AG (armored cars and tanks) [10] Krupp (munitions) [4] [5] Krupp—Laurahùtte (munitions) [8] Lasota (tunnel & road construction) [10] Oberschlesische Gerätebau GmbH [10] Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke (construction of synthetic gasoline works) [5] [8] [10] Ölschieferanlagen (oil refinery construction) [8] Ost-Maschinenbau GmbH (OSMAG) (cannon) [2] [5] [8] [10] Pfitzner und Kamper (munitions, loading) [10] Philipp Holzmann (construction) [10] Pluschke und Grosser (construction) [10] Portland-Zement-Fabrik AG (construction materials) [10] Riedel (tunnel and roadbuilding) [10] Rheinmetall-Borsig (munitions) [3] Schuchtermann und Kremer Bau AG (construction) [10] Schweinitz (construction) [10] S. Frankel—Schlesische Feinweberei AG (textiles) [10] Siemens-Schuckert (electronics for aircraft) [2] [3] [10] Union Metallindustrie (munitions) [4] [5] Vacuum Öl (oil refinery) [5] [10] Vereinigte Aluminiumwerke (aluminum) [5] Wayss und Freytag (construction) [10] Zieleniewski (munitions) [10] Zwirnfabrik G. A. Buhl und Sohn (textiles) [10]
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Christopher Simpson (The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Forbidden Bookshelf))
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January 2018 Joe Kaeser, CEO of German industrial giant Siemens, had made the same point about a Chinese world order with a pithy sentence: “China’s Belt and Road will be the new World Trade Organization—whether we like it or not.
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Bruno Maçães (Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order)
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PLC Service Companies- Pesco International is Associate in Nursing EPC acquiring company specialised in power plants, oil and gas and station comes within the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and throughout MENA. Pesco employs extremely trained and qualified personnel with in depth expertise and technical data gained from major makers like GE, Siemens, discoverer, Alex Boncayao Brigade and Alstom, also as major comes in oil and gas, power plants and substations.
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pescoint
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CAF o Talgo son líderes en material rodante ferroviario (…) alrededor del 15% de los componentes de los AirBus proviene de manos españolas y 3 de cada 5 vuelos están controlados por sistemas de navegación españoles (…) Indra ganó a Siemens el control de su espacio aéreo. ¿Sabían que el 50% de los inodoros de todo el mundo son de la catalana Roca? ¿O que los chinos prefieren los pavimentos cerámicos de la firma de Vila-Real Porcelanosa? (…) El grupo navarro Viscofan es el primero en el mercado de envolturas artificiales para productos cárnicos (…) nuestros productos estrella son el vino (segundo productor mundial) y el aceite (primer exportador del mundo) (…) En las cenas de Acción de Gracias americanas se cuelan los capones segovianos de Cascajares. Hasta Obama se hace traer el foie de Extremadura (…) la española Puleva inventó la primera leche enriquecida con calcio del mercado. Marcas internacionales como Zara o Mango son referentes mundiales de nuestro sector textil (…) una de cada cuatro novias en todo el mundo elige un traje diseñado en España por marcas como Pronovias. De la tecnología valenciana de Jeanology salió el láser para desteñir vaqueros que utilizan la mayoría de marcas (…) un pequeño taller de 14 metros cuadrados de los años ochenta en Andújar es hoy una planta de 1300 metros que fabrica el 50% de los estores que vende IKEA por todo el mundo (…) Una antena de comunicaciones colocada en el Curiosity fue fabricada en España. Y qué decir del acento español de grandes compañías como Telefónica, Repsol o Santander consolidadas internacionalmente.
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Alberto Gil Ibáñez (La leyenda negra: Historia del odio a España (Spanish Edition))
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Stanley’s breakthrough came in studying the Siemens system. He realized, he said, that if he could make an induction coil—a “transformer,” he called it now—wired in parallel rather than in series, each coil would operate independently. That arrangement would keep the current steady whatever the demand and even if a component failed.
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Richard Rhodes (Energy: A Human History)
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Thirty-four companies—many of them still household names today, like Krupp, AEG Telefunken, Siemens, Bayer, and IG Farben—made fortunes from the tortured labor of Jews, Russians, Poles, some Allied prisoners of war, and German prisoners of conscience.
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Gerald Posner (Mengele: The Complete Story)
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Onnen keskellä mietin, miten pääsemme toisistamme eroon. Kuoleminen on yksi tapa.
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Anneli Pääkkönen (Sielu, siemen, keiju, aasi.)
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Tähän en kuole, vaikka joskus huudan ääneen, kun teekannun huuhtominen on niin mutkikasta ja kömpelöä. Kun sukan vetäminen jalkaan on pirun kanssa kisailua. Aurinko paistaa. Koko elämäni on ollut pitkä lämmin aurinkoinen kesäpäivä - yksin. Jostakin täytyy löytää vessa ja äkkiä muuten tulee pissit housuun. Iloitse, vanhus! Mutta älä nyt naura, ettei housu kastu. Karhunpentu, apinantyttö, aasikeiju, sielueläin, tassu tassun eteen.
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Anneli Pääkkönen (Sielu, siemen, keiju, aasi.)
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When the first women started work in the barracks on 25 August 1942, Siemens & Halske joined three other major German manufacturers- IG Farbe at Auschwitz, Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG at Mauthausen and Heinkel at Sachsenhausen-in using concertation-camp slave labour. So pleased was the company with its new Ravensbruck factory that Rudolf Dingel...wrote to the Reichsfuhrer SS thanking him warmly. Himmler's kindness towards Siemens inspired him with 'particular joy.
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Sarah Helm