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Volume VI · Page 872
| WITNESS LAURENT: I
have to say that we actually found every thing. Now I don't want to make any
"bad cracks" but I have to say that the personnel, that is, the German
administration and staff in 1944, made such a quick departure that I hardly
think they had time to think about destruction or dismantling or anything of
the kind; but I will add that I personally do not think that Mr. Otto Ernst
Flick had the intention of destroying or dismantling anything. Q. M. Laurent, from various witnesses' testimony we know that the intended evacuation had been announced some time previously. We also know that the order existed to destroy all installations. I suppose you can confirm that as the witnesses Roechling and Otto Ernst Flick have testified here, — contrary to existing orders, no destruction was carried out. A. I am very glad to hear that this failure to carry out destructions was against the instructions of the German Government; I am very glad that neither Mr. Roechling nor Mr. Otto Ernst Flick had these orders carried out. DR. KRANZBUEHLER: Thank you. I have no further questions. |
