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| [be…] tween Germany and France. At least
I repeat the words he spoke in his radio address of the year before. This
address has been published in all the newspapers. That was the aim of the
Bruening government and Dietrich. The Bruening government, soon after the conclusion of the coal deal, had to resign, not because of the deal, but for other reasons. Of course the deal afterward was criticized by the succeeding government. After all, that was no miracle. It had been concluded in the last days of the [Bruening] government. It was criticized by opposing parties, also by the Social Democrats. The amount paid was considerably above the exchange rates of the day, but still the amount was very low considering the value. And a few years afterward, the German Reich resold the shares and made a profit which I must estimate to be about RM 30,000,000. If the German Reich had waited a few years longer, then they would have made a profit of about 30,000,000 or 40,000,000 more, but the German Reich in 1936 sold the shares. |
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* Cross-examination concerning the Gelsenkirchen transaction was closely related to the question of defendant Flick's contributions to political parties. Extracts from Flick's testimony on this subject upon cross-examination are reproduced below in section V G.
