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Volume VI · Page 216
| G. Affidavit of Defendant Terberger | |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-5418 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 18 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF
DEFENDANT TERBERGER, 5 MARCH 1947, CONCERNING HIS PERSONAL HISTORY |
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| I, Hermann Terberger, swear,
state, and declare: 1. I was born on 5 July 1892 at Schwerte in the Ruhr district. I studied law at the Universities of Tuebingen and Marburg and passed my first law examination in June 1914. During the [First] World War I at first served in the army as a private first class up to the time when I was wounded in 1915 by a bullet lodging in my lung. From March 1918 until the time of my discharge from the army at the end of 1918 I was lieutenant in the reserve in the antiaircraft artillery. From 1919 to 1921 I served my preparatory term for a law career and in the year 1921 I passed the bar examination. 2. On 1 May 1933 I became a member of the NSDAP; my Party Number was 2 580 883. I belonged to the SA reserve from 1933 to 1934 without rank. 3. From the end of 1937 until May 1945 I was Beirat [advisory counselor] of the Economic Group Iron Producing Industry. I also was a member of the Beirat of the District Economic Chamber [Gauwirtschaftskammer] at Bayreuth. 4. 1940-41 I was appointed Wehrwirtschaftsfuehrer [Military Economy Leader] by the Ministry of Economics. 5. I occupied the following positions: |
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a. From 1922 to 1925 I was legal adviser [Syndikus] with the Hacketal-Drahtwerke with power of attorney. |
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| I have made this
declaration voluntarily, without any promise of reward, and I was not subjected
to any duress or threat whatsoever. I have read carefully each of two pages of
the foregoing deposition, and have signed it myself. I have made the necessary
corrections in my own handwriting and countersigned them with my initials. I
declare herewith on oath that all the facts given by me in this declaration are
true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Nuernberg, 5 March 1947 |
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| [Signed] HERMANN TERBERGER | |
