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its industrial facilities, and to reduce the Soviet economy to an
agrarian status.
115. Special corporations, called
Monopolgesellschaften or Ostgesellschaften were organized for the express
purpose of exploiting the specialized industrial fields. These corporations
were to be appointed "trustees" to operate Soviet industrial facilities
exclusively for the German war economy.
116. To lay a basis for future
claim to Soviet industrial plants, Farben set out to acquire influence in, and
control of, the special corporations through substantial financial
participations, and through placing its personnel in key positions in these
corporations. Farben secured a financial participation in the Kontinentale Oel
A.G., which Goering had organized as early as March 1941, to exploit the oil
resources of the East. The defendant Buetefisch attended the initial meeting
where the organizational details were agreed upon. The defendant Krauch was
made a member of the Vorstand Kontinentale Oel A.G. and Hermann Abs, of the
Farben Aufsichtsrat, was made an official of the company. The oil properties
and related facilities of the Soviet Union were assigned to the Kontinentale
Oel A.G. for exploitation. In the Chemie Ost G.m.b.H., another special
corporation, Farben obtained a substantial financial participation. A Farben
official was made its manager and the defendant von Schnitzler a member of its
advisory board. Defendant Oster was made manager of the Stickstoff Ost, a
corporation organized to exploit nitrogen facilities.
117. Farben made
available to the German Government the services of the defendant Ambros and
other experts to prepare for the exploitation of Soviet industry. On 28 June
1941, one week after the attack on Russia, the defendant Ambros wrote the
defendant Krauch offering the services of Farben specialists who should "take
over the plants there." The following week the defendant Ilgner issued
instructions for the submission of plans to reorganize Russian industry under
German leadership, using Farben's experience in Czechoslovakia as a model. At
the same time the defendant Ambros selected a group of chemists and specialists
to go to Russia; and on 1 July 1941, informed the Buna Commission that, prior
to their departure for Russia, it was necessary that the policies relating to
the production of certain types of buna be fixed in order "to make, as soon as
possible, the Russian production subservient to our intentions." In December
1941, Farben proposed to the German Ministry of Economics the formation of a
special corporation for exploiting the Russian buna plants, whose stock was to
be owned 100 percent by Farben.
118. In January 1942, Farben's Berlin
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