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| [re…] quest emanated not
from the industrialists, but from the Reich Leader. The industrialists always
accepted the invitations of the Reich Leader SS, if it was possible for them to
do so. 12. In December 1943, the Circle of Friends was invited to the headquarters of Reich Leader SS Himmler. Himmler spoke about the war situation, giving a rather optimistic picture. Afterward a kind of Christmas celebration of the Waffen SS was held. A film showing the training of the Waffen SS was presented and a male choir of the Waffen SS sang. C. 1. The members of the Circle of Friends were, as far as I can recall, the following: |
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| Kranefuss, Fritz | Meyer, Dr. Emil | |||
| Voegler, Albert (no more in the last years) | Steinbrinck, Otto | |||
| Kehrl, Hans² | ||||
| Schroeder, Kurt van | Halt, Karl Ritter van | |||
| Buetefisch, Heinrich¹ | Helfferich, Emil | |||
| Rasche, Dr. Karl² | Reinhardt, Friedrich | |||
| Krogmann, Karl Vincenz | Fischboeck, Hans | |||
| Olscher, Dr. Alfred | Heuer, Otto (?) (Heidelberger Portland Zement Werke A.G.) | |||
| Flick, Friedrich | ||||
| Lindemann, Karl | Hecker, Ewald | |||
| Boerger, Wilhelm | Ohlendorf, Otto³ | |||
| Walz, Karl | Pohl, Oswald4 | |||
| Schmidt, Heinrich | Bismarck, Graf von | |||
| Waldhecker, Hermann | Wolff, Karl | |||
| Roehnert, Hellmuth | Sievers, Dr. Wolfram5 | |||
| Voss, Wilhelm | Hayler, Franz | |||
| Goering, Herbert | Naumann, Werner | |||
| Kaselowsky, Theodor | Behrens, Dr. ing. Hermann | |||
| Rosterg, August | Schaefer, Dr. Ernst | |||
| Bingel, Rudolf | Dermitzel, Dr. Fritz | |||
| Blessing, Karl | Hilgenfeldt, Erich | |||
| Schmitt, Kurt | ||||
| Having carefully read and personally countersigned each of the five pages of this affidavit and having personally made the necessary corrections and countersigned them with my initials, I herewith declare under oath that all facts submitted by me in this affidavit correspond, to the best of my knowledge and belief, to the full truth. | ||||
| [Signed] WILHELM KEPPLER | ||||
¹ Defendant in the I.G. Farben case, Volumes VII and VIII, this series.
² Defendants in the Ministries case, Volumes XII-XIV, this series.
³ Defendant in the Einsatzgruppen case, Volume IV, this series.
4 Defendant in the Pohl case, Volume V, this series.
5 Defendant in the Medical case, Volumes I and II, this series
