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[presen…] tation of evidence that Gattineau participated in carrying out the negotiations of IG in Austria.

The Pressburg matter characteristically illustrates the presentation of evidence by the prosecution. Gen. Telford Taylor claimed with pathos: 
 
"After 1938, he (Gattineau), as director of one of the largest Farben factories making explosives in the occupied territory, participated in supplying and abusing forced labor, and in spoliation."
Here too, again, we had to wait for proof in vain. The prosecution has not presented a single document. This would also be difficult to do, because neither foreign labor, forced labor, concentration-camp inmates, nor prisoners of war were used as workers in Pressburg.

There is just as little opportunity for the prosecution to prove its contention that plundering had occurred in Pressburg. Under these circumstances, it is perfectly understandable that Judge Morris pointed to the irrelevancy of the material until the beginning of hostilities in 1939. In my opinion, this pertains above all to the defendant Gattineau.

When we keep in mind that that is the result of the efforts made by the prosecution for 2½ years, it is something less than a scanty result. I do not wish to criticize the prosecution. For it is difficult to present evidence against a defendant who has committed no crime according to the counts of the indictment. If the prosecution were granted as much time again for its preparation, it would again have the same failure. The further development of the trial will show this clearly. 
 
P. Opening Statement for Defendant Kuehne* 
 
DR. GUENTHER LUMMERT (counsel for defendant Kuehne): With Your Honor's permission, I would like to refrain from making a special opening statement for the defendant Kuehne, and this for the following reasons:

1. To avoid unnecessary repetition and thus to speed up the proceedings, since the Tribunal has already listened to 13 opening statements.

2. In view of the, indeed, minimum charges against the defendant Kuehne.
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* Tr. p. 4855, 19 December 1947. The final statement of defendant Kuehne to the Tribunal appears in section XII 10, volume VIII, this series  


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