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Volume IV · Page 988
| of Koch became, as I learned
later, the basis of a complaint to Himmler on the part of the Berlin office.
Prof. Meyer-Hetling took the initiative in this case. I have cited the dates from memory and they are not unqualifiedly binding. |
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| [Signature] WALTER GERLACH | |
| Nuernberg, 3 November 1947 | |
| TRANSLATION OF MEYER-HETLING DOCUMENT 83 MEYER-HETLING DEFENSE EXHIBIT 83 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF HEINZ
FIEDLER, 22 OCTOBER 1947, CONCERNING THE AUTHORITY OF THE CENTRAL LAND OFFICE |
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| Affidavit | |
| I, Heinz Fiedler L.L.D., born on
30 January 1909 at Poznan, residing at Frankfurt-Main, Letzter Hasenpfad 17,
have been duly warned that I make myself liable to punishment by making a false
affidavit. I declare under oath that my affidavit is true and has been made in
order to be submitted in evidence before the Military Tribunal No. I, at the
Palace of Justice, Nuernberg, Germany. I was active from February 1940 until February 1942 at the Central Land Office as chief of the subdepartment for "legal affairs". The Central Land Office was at the time of my activity merely an office for registration and land registration which had to give at any time information concerning the land available for settlement purposes and which had to collect data pertaining to economy of management registration and land registration. In this respect it had to note also the dates of requisitionings and confiscations according to the decree for the treatment of Polish properties concerning the agricultural properties. In connection with this activity, the Central Land Office participated by way of advice and directives in the practical execution of the requisition and confiscation measures according to the above-mentioned decree; in doubtful cases it took part also in decisions. According to my recollection, the Central Land Office did not possess independent authority of disposal regarding agricultural real estate during my time of activity. According to my knowledge, individual property transfers in the annexed Eastern territories were carried out only since 1941. Altogether it might have amounted to a few thousand of hectares. The data for such formal property transfers had to be procured partly by the Central Land |
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