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| had a very good consumer district in south Germany, particularly in Bavaria and in Wuerttemberg. Into this consumer district Mr. Pleiger had advanced and mainly he had come from the east, from Linz. There he had built the Linz foundry. Now, we knew that Pleiger was trying very hard to annex in Lorraine and Luxembourg some large possessions. In other words, there was the danger that the consumer district of Maxhuette would not only be threatened from the east but perhaps to a large extent from the west. In order to keep our fingers in the pie, that is, in the price policies in Lorraine and Luxembourg, we took that as a reason for taking an interest in Rombach. | |
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| IX. CLOSING STATEMENTS | |
| A. Introduction | |
| The closing statements for the prosecution and defense are set down
in more than 600 pages of transcript (Tr. pp. 10344-10969) and their
delivery required 5 trial days. The closing statement for the prosecution,
delivered on 24 November 1947, was followed by nearly 4 days of defense
closings (25, 26, 28, and 29 Nov. 1947 ). The rebuttal statement for the
prosecution, also delivered on 29 November 1947, occupied approximately 1 hour
of trial time. The defense closings were rendered in the following order:
Burkart, Terberger, Kaletsch, Steinbrinck, Weiss, and Flick. From this
voluminous argumentation the following are reproduced herein: extracts from the
closing statement for the prosecution (sec. B) ; extracts from the closing
statement for defendant Burkart (sec. C) ; extracts from the closing statement
for defendant Steinbrinck (sec. D) ; extracts from the closing statement for
defendant Weiss (sec. E) ; the closing statement for defendant Flick (sec. F) ;
and the rebuttal closing statement for the prosecution (sec. G).
Closing statements for the defendants, Terberger and Kaletsch, no parts of which are reproduced herein, may be found in the mimeographed transcript, pages 10572-10713. The opening statements for the prosecution and for each of the defendants are reproduced in full in section III. |
