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of the defendant Mann (subsec. C 2) and of the defendant Gajewski,
together with extracts from a document used during cross-examination of
Gajewski (subsec. C 3). Both defendants Mann and Gajewski used the term "window
dressing" in their testimony. The last selections reproduced at this point are
extracts from an affidavit and from the oral testimony of Dr. Krueger, the
first deputy of the defendant Ilgner, who describes defendant Ilgner's attitude
toward the Nazi regime (subsec. C 4).
A number of further materials
bearing on the defense of compulsion and upon "window dressing" appear in
section VII C and throughout the later selections. Special reference should be
made to a number of decrees which were issued during the Third Reich and which
provided severe penalties for noncompliance. A number of such decrees are
reproduced later in section VII E, "Reorganization of Economy and Early
Considerations of Military Economy in the Third Reich." The judgment of the
Tribunal, in connection with the charges of slave labor, discusses "The Defense
of Necessity" (sec. XIII, vol. VIII), and Judge Hebert likewise takes it up in
his dissenting opinion on slave labor (sec. XV, vol. VIII). |
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B. Testimony on Compulsion by Defense Witnesses Milch,
Flick, and Huenermann, and by Defendant Ambros |
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I. TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE WITNESS
FIELD MARSHAL ERHARD
MILCH |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
ERHARD MILCH* |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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| DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch) Now another subject.
You said that you saw Krauch for the first time in 1933, that you went to him
with the request for technical advice. I shall ask the next question for the
sake of brevity. In 1936, this request for expert advice on a larger scale was
made to Krauch again and he entered the Raw Material and Exchange Staff, as
well as the Four Year Plan. My question is this. When Krauch was asked for
advice, could he refuse? I am not thinking of the moral consequences, but
others. |
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in mimeographed transcript, 55 January; 5 March 1948, pp. 5296-5347,
8535-8559 Further extracts are reproduced below in section VII C 6 a.
Milch had been convicted earlier by Military Tribunal II for participation in
Germany, slave labor program and sentenced to life imprisonment (see vol. II,
pp. 796 and 797, this series).
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