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| 2. AFFIDAVIT OF KERSTEN | |
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT FLICK 17 FLICK DEFENSE EXHIBIT 17 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF
CHIROPRACTOR FELIX KERSTEN, 19 APRIL 1947 CONCERNING HIMMLER'S ATTITUDE WITH RESPECT TO DEFENDANT FLICK AND HIMMLER'S CONSTANT THREATS AGAINST FLICK* |
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| Stockholm, 19 April
1947 Linnégatan 8 |
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| Felix Kersten Medical Counsellor [Medicinalrad] |
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| Affidavit | |
| I hereby certify that Dr.
Friedrich Flick has been my patient since 1937, and that he was under my
medical care regularly every year until 1943. After that, we met often and were
in constant touch till the end of the war. At the end of May 1940, the then "Reich Leader SS" Heinrich Himmler, whom I then treated privately as a chiropractor, said that I should at once break my connection with Mr. and Mrs. Flick, because it could do a lot of damage to my reputation in Germany if I were connected with them who both were traitor-swine to the National Socialistic idea. I said to Himmler that as a Finnish citizen I was not interested in German politics, and that I treat every German who asks me. Himmler then told me he had clear proof that acts of sabotage were being committed in the industry of Dr. Friedrich Flick instigated by Flick. Furthermore that Dr. Flick was probably being employed by the Allies, that he was a dishonest traitor, who, hating the great ideas of the Fuehrer, was selling his country to the Allies for money. Therefore he (Himmler), after termination of the campaign in France, would put Dr. Flick and his family in a concentration camp, because this is the reward for the enemies of the Third Reich. I called Himmler's attention to the fact that I could not believe these infamous accusations against Dr. Flick because I considered Dr. Flick an honest man who had been denounced by mean individuals. Himmler then answered that these accusations were not made by anybody but by an absolutely reliable and responsible person, namely, SS Standartenfuehrer Fritz Kranefuss (director and president of the "Braunkohlen-Benzin A.G.") and his faithful associates. Himmler said that Kranefuss, during several years, watched Dr. Flick closely and found |
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*Affiant Kersten was not called as a witness by either the prosecution or the defense.
