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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT
AMBROS¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. HOFFMANN (counsel for defendant Ambros) : Did new plants have to
be built to produce war gas, or were these plants already in existence, or
could existing plants be adapted for that purpose?
DEFENDANT AMBROS:
Since I.G. Farbenindustrie, in contrast to the First World War, refused
principally to produce explosives or poison gas in its own plants, the Reich,
the OKW, was forced to build new factories for this purpose |
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| C. Selections from the Evidence on "Window
Dressing" |
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I. TESTIMONY AND AFFIDAVIT OF DR. FRANK-FAHLE,
SECRETARY OF THE
COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE OF
FARBEN VORSTAND |
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| a. Testimony of Frank-Fahle |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION
WITNESS GUENTHER
FRANK-FAHLE² |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION: |
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DR. BACHEM (associate defense counsel for Ilgner) : In your
affidavit (NI-5169, Pros. Ex. 360) you speak quite clearly of the K.A.
[Commercial Committee] minutes as "aides memoirs." That is supposed to mean, is
it not, that these minutes were to be sufficient to aid a person, who had been
present at the meetings himself, to interpret and to do what was necessary, is
that right?
WITNESS FRANK-FAHLE: Yes. |
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¹ Complete testimony
is recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 26, 27. 28, February, I March 1948,
pp. 7757-7920 and 7964-8145. Further extracts are reproduced below in section
VII G 7 b and K 6 and in section VIII D 4 and E 4, vol. VIII, this series.
² Complete testimony as a prosecution witness is recorded in
mimeographed transcript. 11, 14 October 1947 (pp. 1942-2051) and as a defense
witness, 22 March 1948 (pp. 9788-9826). Frank-Fahle had executed a number of
affidavits, after interrogation by representatives of the prosecution staff,
which had been introduced in evidence by the prosecution. Parts of one of them,
which led to the testimony here reproduced, appear just after this testimony.
Frank-Fahle gave much favorable testimony to the defense upon cross-examination
concerning his affidavits, and on redirect examination the Tribunal cautioned
the prosecution several times about cross-examining its own witness.
Frank-Fahle also appeared as a defense witness during the defense case. See
vol. XV, this series, section XVIII F 5.
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