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19 of the other defendants were members of the managing board; and
three of the defendants held other important positions in the concern.
Each of the defendants was charged under four of the five counts of the
indictment: count one, the planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of
wars of aggression and the invasions of other countries; count two, plunder and
spoliation; count three, slave labor; and count five, common plan or conspiracy
to commit crimes against peace. Only three of the defendants, Schneider,
Buetefisch, and von der Heyde, were charged under count four with membership in
the SS, an organization of the Nazi Party declared criminal by the judgment of
the International Military Tribunal. None of the defendants was found guilty
under counts one and five (crimes against peace). Nine of the defendants were
found guilty under count two (plunder and spoliation): Buergin, Haefliger,
Ilgner, Jaehne, Kugler, ter Meer, Oster, Schmitz, and von Schnitzler. Five of
the defendants were found guilty under count three (slave labor) : Ambros,
Buetefisch, Duerrfeld, Krauch, and ter Meer. None of the three defendants
charged was found guilty under count four (membership in the SS).
The
argumentation and evidence reproduced in these two volumes on the Farben case
on the charges of crimes against peace (counts one and five) are more extensive
than the materials included on the other three counts taken together for a
number of reasons: first, the materials submitted by both the prosecution and
the defense on these two counts were relatively more extensive; second, the
Farben case was the only industrialist case involving charges of crimes against
peace in which the defense was put to its proof; third, the two counts of the
indictment on crimes against peace (counts one and five) both incorporated the
detailed charges of counts two and three by reference on the theory that the
acts of spoliation and slave labor "were committed as an integral part of the
planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of wars of aggression and
invasions of other countries" and "formed a part of said common plan or
conspiracy"; and lastly, a number of the other volumes of this series contain
extensive materials on either spoliation or slave labor, or on both spoliation
and slave labor. (For materials on spoliation, see particularly the Flick case,
vol. VI, the Krupp case, vol. IX, and the Ministries case, vols. XII-XIV; for
materials on slave labor, see particularly the Milch case, vol. II, the Pohl
case, vol. V, the Flick case, vol. VI, the Krupp case, vol. IX, and the
Ministries case, vols. XII-XIV.)
The Farben case was tried at the
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