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| DEFENDANT FLICK: I presume so. The final account is not available,
but I consider it as lost. Q. Aside from the guarantee that Maxhuette and Mittelstahl took over for the bank credits opened to Rombach G.m.b.H., were there other guarantees? A. To my knowledge, there were none, but I cannot say whether there is any claim against us on account of this guarantee Kaletsch would have to answer that. I am not so well acquainted with these matters. Q. So, on the assumption that there is no claim against you out of those guarantees, is it true, taking into account everything you have now told the Tribunal, that the final accounting for you would be that you lost 500,000 marks and have earned nothing? A. That is what I assume, but I must explain that this, in essence, depends on the final accounting with whoever order, the trusteeship. That is the Reich. No final account has so far been made with the Reich, especially not in the tax question. I have already mentioned that. It is a complicated question because the Rombach company was conceded amortization in its balance sheet, in a sense, although it did not possess installations of its own. These untaxed profits, as I should express it, must be subsequently taxed. To what extent and to what amount is an open question. It is a question which remains to be discussed. But we calculate that nothing can possibly remain. Q. Now it is getting more complicated again. A. That is the only way I can explain it. I cannot declare that that capital is definitely lost. I assume that it is lost, but I do not know it. JUDGE RICHMAN: Do you know whether the plant is in operation today, the Rombach plant? DEFENDANT FLICK: As far as I have learned, the plant was not yet working in the spring or summer of last year. I do not know how it is today. This is mainly connected with the fuel shortage because the Ruhr isn't supplying any coke. |
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