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Volume VI · Page 209
| F. Affidavit of Defendant Weiss | |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-3125 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 21 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF
DEFENDANT WEISS, 18 DECEMBER 1946, CONCERNING HIS PERSONAL HISTORY, THE DISTRIBUTION OF DUTIES WITHIN THE FLICK CONCERN, AND RELATED MATTERS |
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| I, Bernhard Weiss, being duly
sworn, do state on oath as follows: 1. My background and training. — I am 42 years old and was born in Siegen, Westphalia. I graduated from the High School of Siegen in 1923, and thereupon entered on apprenticeship as a commercial industrial man in the Siegener Eisenbahnbedarf A.G. This company was engaged in the manufacture of railroad cars and parts. After spending 1 year with this company, I spent a year and a half with the Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer Company at its office in Berlin and at its office and plant in Breslau. I became connected with the company through Mr. Friedrich Flick who was connected with that company and who was my uncle by marriage. My mother and Mr. Flick's wife were sisters. I left the Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer Company in 1925 and attended the University of Cologne for two semesters. Thereupon I became connected with Siegener Maschinenbau A.G., commonly known as Siemag. I interrupted my work with Siemag in 1927 to spend 9 or 10 months in England to learn the language and become acquainted with its people. I intended to travel in other countries but was forced to return home by reason of my father's ill health and resume my work with Siemag. 2. The Siemag Company. — Siemag was a company engaged in the manufacture of engines which up to 1927 was owned entirely by my father and by my uncle, Karl Weiss. At the time of my father's death in 1932, he and my uncle, Karl Weiss, each owned about 42 percent of the stock. Mr. Flick owned the balance which he had acquired in exchange for stock of another company located in Dahlbruch which had been merged with Siemag in 1927. After my father's death there was a family discussion, as a result of which it was agreed that the Siemag shares should be gradually concentrated in my hands. This was managed by buying as many shares by myself as I could afford, and by having the company buy the rest of the shares by way of capital reimbursements |
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