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| interfere if I wanted to help the person involved in these political
actions, and to prevent me from helping. |
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DR. BERNDT: Now you know that the prosecution has submitted
documents; for instance, the minutes concerning a decision of the Commercial
Committee, from which the prosecution wants to draw the opposite conclusions.
In document book 14, that is Prosecution Exhibit 365 (NI-4862) *, the
prosecution draws conclusions in the opposite direction. I ask you to explain
that in a few brief words.
A. Well, that has already been discussed
here also. In this decision, it was stipulated that Mr. von Schnitzler was to
have a discussion with the Foreign Organization in order to carry out the
unified discharge and release plan. I can really say that it was the opinion of
all of the members of the Commercial Committee to take this position in order
to use it as a basis for negotiations with the Foreign Organization.
Negotiation was the aim whenever possible, to safeguard the execution of our
wishes.
The formulation of minutes repeatedly has been explained with
expressions like "window dressing," "camouflage," or "finding a backing." The
situation is always the same, because to the then-existing government agencies,
one always wanted to give the appearance of a correct execution in the sense of
the orders, but in practice we wanted to act in such a way that all
considerations of a humane and social nature were taken into consideration in
every individual case. |
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3. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI AND LETTER
FROM THE REICH
MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS
TO DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI |
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[Statement from the judgment concerning personal history,
positions, and affiliations of defendant Fritz Gajewski:
"GAJEWSKJ,
Fritz: Born 13 October 1885, Pillau, East Prussia. Ph.D. in chemistry;
1931-1934 deputy member of Vorstand; 1934-1945 full member of Vorstand;
1929-1938 member of working Committee; 1933-1945 member of Central Committee;
1929-1945 member of Technical Committee (first deputy chairman 1933-1945) ;
1929-1945 chief of Sparte III; 1931-1945 chief of works Combine Berlin; manager
of Agfa plants; member of board in numerous other subsidiaries and affiliates,
including DAG. |
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* Not reproduced herein. The
minutes in question read:
"Supplementation of Personnel in our Agencies
abroad and Collaboration with the Foreign Organization (AO)
The Sales
Combine, are to send to the Bureau of the commercial committee lists of the
non-Aryan employees working abroad, together with proposals for the gradual
reduction of their numbers. Dr. von Schnitzler will then discuss with the
Foreign Organization the uniform reduction on the basis of these lists."
436 |
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