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nationals. Among the plants located in this area were the dye-stuffs
plant of Kuhlmann's Société des Matières Colorantes et
Produits Chimiques de Mulhouse, the oxygen plants of the Oxygène
Liquide, Strassburg-Schiltigheim (Alsace), and the factory of the Oxhydrique
Française in Diedenhofen (Lorraine). Farben acquired these plants from
the German Government without payment to, or consent of, the French owners.
112. France had developed a substantial pharmaceutical line of which
the Société des Usines Chimiques Rhône-Poulenc
(Rhône-Poulenc) was the principal firm. The pharmaceutical branch of
Farben, the Bayer organization, was also desirous of "negotiating" an agreement
in that field. The Rhône-Poulenc plants, however, were located in
unoccupied France. With the aid and assistance of the German authorities, the
defendant Mann conducted successful "negotiations" resulting in a formal
agreement whereby Farben acquired a 51 percent interest in a subsidiary of
Rhône-Poulenc and whereby that subsidiary was made the joint sales agency
for the products of Bayer and Rhône-Poulenc. Farben paid for its purchase
through the "clearing account."
113. By the aforementioned
"negotiations," Farben acquired control of the French chemical and
pharmaceutical industries, integrated its production with its own operations,
and participated in the subjugation of the French economy to the German economy
and in the destruction of its former independence. |
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| 114. On 18 December 1940, Hitler issued a directive stating that by
15 May 1941, "the German Wehrmacht must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia in a
quick campaign before the end of the war against England." The code name for
this campaign was "Case Barbarossa." A special plan, called the "Oldenburg"
plan, to be administered by an Economic General Staff, was set up as an
economic counterpart to "Case Barbarossa," to assure the most efficient
exploitation of Soviet resources. The German Armies were to be fed out of
Soviet territory even "if many millions of people will be starved to death." In
planning the said aggression and destruction of Soviet resources, the German
Government openly rejected the restrictions of the Hague Convention of 1907,
declaring that its rules "regarding the administration of territories occupied
by a belligerent do not apply since the Soviet Union is to be considered
dissolved"; the entire Soviet industrial property was marshaled for "National
Economy" and belonged to the German State. The plan envisaged a campaign of
exploitation designed to subjugate the entire Soviet economy, to strip it of
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