Did you notice this little tidbit from the end of the NYT article?
"More controversy came from the use of an anti-graffiti coating made by Germany's Degussa, which was co-owner of the company that made the Zyklon B poison gas used by the death camps."
This is pretty surprising. Even without the Nazi connection, anti-graffiti coating sounds a bit unpleasant to me -- is it fairly standard issue these days?.
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Did you notice this little tidbit from the end of the NYT article?
"More controversy came from the use of an anti-graffiti coating made by Germany's Degussa, which was co-owner of the company that made the Zyklon B poison gas used by the death camps."
This is pretty surprising. Even without the Nazi connection, anti-graffiti coating sounds a bit unpleasant to me -- is it fairly standard issue these days?.
, esp the comments
Incidentally, it was the Guardian, not the NYT, that had that item in it. Sorry about that. The article is/was here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1480827,00.html
I think Eisenman awhile back made some jokes (which were not well received) that his gold fillings were made by Degussa.
I would watch the little video on NYT's site. There is some interesting reaction from one of the members of the german government.
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