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Q. Was that industry, during the war, employing concentration-camp
inmates by allocation?
A. Yes.
Q. If these allocations had been
refused by the plants, namely to employ concentration-camp inmates, would that
have been possible?
A. That would have been quite impossible for the
plants.
Q. In that case, I suppose the same consequences would have
arisen which you described in a more general way before in case a plant refused
to employ foreign workers.
A. Yes, quite. |
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2. TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE WITNESS FRIEDRICH FLICK,
HEAD OF THE
FLICK CONCERN¹ |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF FRIEDRICH
FLICK² |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. SIEMERS (counsel for defendant von Schnitzler) : Dr. Flick, I am
coming back to the question of the Election Fund of 1933. Could one of these
prominent industrialists refuse to attend this meeting which was called by
Goering?³
WITNESS FLICK: He could do that, if he did not consider
the consequences, but, naturally, he would have regretted it. As I said, I
— and I think that also held true for other industrialists, or, at least,
for many — was frequently called to attend conferences and meetings held
by the preceding government. If, now, the same industrialist had not followed a
call of a prominent member of the new government — in particular, of the
Prime Minister — that would certainly have been considered as an open
affront.
I could give you an example: When the well-known big
industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, at a later date did not obey another
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¹ Friedrich Flick was
the principal defendant in Case I before Tribunal IV in Nuernberg. At the time
of his testimony in the Farben case. he was serving a prison sentence of seven
years upon his conviction for participation in the slave-labor program, the
spoliation of property in occupied countries and membership in and support of
the SS, principally through membership in the Himmler Circle of Friends (see
vol. VI, this series).
² Complete testimony (Case 6) is recorded in
mimeographed transcript, 12 March 1948, pp. 9018-9093.
³ This refers
to an election fund of 1,000,000 marks contributed by a number of
industrialists or industrial firms in connection with the Reichstag election of
1 March 1933. The Farben concern contributed 400,000 marks. Evidence concerning
the election fund appears below in section VII C 3.
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