Degesch

Degesch held the patent on the infamous pesticide Zyklon, a variant of which was used to execute people in the gas chambers of German extermination camps during the Holocaust.

Through the firms Tesch & Stabenow GmbH (Testa) and Heerdt-Linger (Heli), Degesch sold the poisonous gas Zyklon B to the German Army and the Schutzstaffel (SS).

He received information by Kurt Gerstein about the murder of people using Zyklon and was informed that the German army needed the gas without the usual additives that were added to warn people by smell of its poisonous nature (the Zyklon B variant).

[3] In 1949, Peters was charged with murder in the court of Frankfurt and convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment.

In 1979, Testa, which was newly founded after the war, merged with Heerdt-Lingler GmbH (HeLi) with the financial participation of Degesch.

Zyklon labels from Dachau concentration camp used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials . The first and third panels contain manufacturer information and the brand name. Zyklon was used at Dachau for fumigation purposes.