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Volume VI · Page 852
| VIII.
SPOLIATION — COUNT TWO — THE ROMBACH CASE |
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| A. Introduction | |
| All the defendants
except Terberger were charged under count two of the indictment (sec. I, above)
with war crimes and crimes against humanity by criminal participation in
plunder of public and private property, spoliation, and other offenses against
property in countries and territories under Germany's belligerent occupation
after 1 September 1939. The specifications of the charges involved the Rombach
enterprises in Lorraine, France; the "Vairogs" plant in Riga, Latvia; and other
properties in both occupied western Europe and occupied eastern Europe. The
Tribunal, in its judgment (sec. XI), acquitted all the defendants under count
two except Flick, and Flick was convicted only upon the charges with respect to
the Rombach plant in Lorraine. This section contains selections from the evidence offered principally in connection with the charges concerning the Rombach plant. This evidence is arranged as follows: extracts from the deposition and testimony of prosecution witness Laurent (sec. B) ; contemporaneous documents (sec. C) ; and extracts from the testimony of defendants Flick and Burkart (sec. C and D, respectively). Extensive evidence concerning charges of spoliation in various parts of occupied Europe is reproduced in later volumes of this series devoted to other trials; the Farben case (vol. VIII, sec. VIII) ; the Krupp case (vol. IX, sec. VII) ; and the Ministries case (vol. XIII, sec. X). |
