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Volume VI · Page 637
| Q. And probably Steinbrinck, if
you didn't ask him, probably Steinbrinck asked him. A. I assume so, Your Honor, but in order to clarify the matter I wanted to add that Dietrich was a very capable and active man liked to stress his importance and show his usefulness; that he had a mandate, that I believe. I am convinced of that. But whether he also developed some initiative on his own, that I couldn't tell you today. MR. LYON: Now, Defendant, I would like to direct your attention again to this letter that you just read, and I would like to have you tell me what you must have thought when you read this letter over. I am not referring to the enclosures, only referring to this one-sentence letter which you initialed. You certainly noticed when you initialed it that it was from Hugo Dietrich, didn't you? A. I can only state what I have already stated, namely, as enclosure was composed of at least fifty or sixty pages, and as this enclosure is not signed and initialed by me, it is first of all doubtful whether it was joined to the letter at all, and I don't think read the enclosure. |
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| E. Testimony of Defendant Steinbrinck | |
| EXTRACTS FROM THE
TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT STEINBRINCK* |
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| DIRECT-EXAMINATION | |
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| DR. FLAECHSNER (counsel for
defendant Steinbrinck) Mr. Steinbrinck, let's pass on to the Petscheks: If Your
Honor please, this refers to the document books 10-A to 10-D, and I would ask
you to kindly take these document books. Now, Mr. Steinbrinck, you have followed the proceedings here and you have heard what the prosecution had to say concerning the Petschek case. In Mr. Flick, the prosecution sees the initiator with whom all the measures against the Petscheks originated. Will you please explain to the Tribunal what were the reasons why you had an interest in the brown coal holdings of the Petscheks at all? DEFENDANT STEINBRINCK: May I submit the chart to the Tribunal again, the chart which we had referred to the other day? (Handed up) |
* Complete testimony is recorded In mimeographed transcript 30, 31 July; 1, 4-8, 11-13, August 1947; pages 4674-5460, 10329-10331. Further extracts from the testimony of defendant Steinbrinck are reproduced above in section V F.
