“Right from the start, I suspected that there was more going on inside the chemical industry near Schkopau than the Dow company and the government agencies would let on. I think we all had that feeling. I learned to work with that suspicion, to make it ...Read more
“I'm not worried about that” (B, interview, 21.06.2021)
Generally, the interviewees worry neither about the remaining toxicity, nor about long-term health damages today. Concerning the issue of long-term health damages one interviewee relativises the toxicity...Read more
“Contaminator and cash cow” (C, interview, 21.06.2021)
The quotation above sums up the (official and unofficial) image of the Buna Werke during the GDR era. According to our interlocutors there existed an ambiguous image , primarily as a contaminator spewing...Read more
In order to understand which toxic consequences former workers are still facing one should first take a look at the working conditions in the GDR and their relations to forced labour.
At the end of the 1980s, production facilities...Read more
