good g-d

So apparently I'm way behind on this, but as I learned from an article on the Cracked magazine website - make fun all you will, but it's a surprisingly interesting, if somewhat upsetting (fortunately with kitten pictures to offset the trauma), read - in 2002, as this BBC article will attest, European engineering conglomerate Siemens apparently tried to trademark the name "Zyklon" for a line of home products. Why such a big deal? Well for those unaware, Zyklon B was the gas used to exterminate concentration camp victims during the Holocaust. And furthermore for those unaware, Siemens was a supporter of Hitler's regime, contributing to the Nazi war effort and maintaining several factories in and around famous camps, including Auschwitz, using slave labor to manufacture electrical switches for the war effort - shit, the crematorium ovens at Buchenwald were manufactured by the company.

Siemens factory at Bobrek destroyed by Allied forces

So Siemens, all I've gotta say is that while you may have manufactured the cute cell phone that I adored while living abroad (though which was stolen by gypsies, forcing me to pay like $250 to replace the rental), that's still seriously fucked up. Oh, and did I mention that this line of home products was to include gas ovens? Yeah, you can't make this shit up.