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Lower Silesia which was one of the many local positions established by the
Armament Ministry. What were the tasks of the Ruestungsobmann I could not
explain to you now, because the organization of the Speer Ministry was rather
complicated; but as far as I know his duty was to supervise in some manner the
armament plants of the whole district and perhaps to support their claims
towards the Speer Ministry and to represent them, but I don't know any details
about that. Furthermore, Dr. Putze had a certain part in the Main Committee
Rail Vehicles. He had introduced himself very well with Degenkolb by the fact
that he had taken a very decisive influence on the construction of the
so-called lightweight war freight car which I have already mentioned here once.
The construction for this freight car largely came from the Breslau plant, that
is from Dr. Putze, and Degenkolb at the time was very happy to have this active
support, and Putze in the subcommittees of the Main Committee had a certain
part to play; and when later Degenkolb also became chairman of the so-called
Special Committee A-I, that was the committee dealing with the production of
the V-2 weapons, well then, he also had Mr. Putze join this committee.
Q. Were there other officials, employees, or engineers of Busch-Bautzen or Linke-Hofmann who served similarly on these committees and subcommittees? A. I wouldn't know that. Dr. Reichert of Bautzen was very reserved in this respect, and he was only interested in his own plant; and toward the outside and in things of a general economic nature, he did not play a large part. Of course, I deem it possible that Dr. Putze would use one or the other of his coworkers for these tasks, but I couldn't give you any details. Q. Is this subcommittee of which Dr. Putze was a member the committee which laid down the plan for the use of concentration camp workers in railroad car building? A. No. I don't think that this special committee had anything to do with this, or the subcommittee. At the time I only heard that the Main Committee Rail Vehicles had dealt with a general allotment. Today I know a little more with respect to that question because now here I have got some information on how the whole matter developed. There I heard that the suggestion had been made by the Reich Railways at the time. May I repeat that these subcommittees and so on, and Putze's work in these subcommittees, dealt only with technical matters, matters of constructive nature, that is, matters of the designing work, and also questions of process of production and methods, etc. |
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