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4. AFFIDAVIT AND ORAL TESTIMONY BY DR. KRUEGER,
DEPUTY OF THE
DEFENDANT ILGNER IN FARBEN'S
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| a. Affidavit of Dr. Kurt Krueger, 18 March 1947
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-4928
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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According to my memory, it was in 1928 that I joined the Central
Finance Administration of I.G. Farbenindustrie, which had been established by
Dr. Max Ilgner in 1926/27 in Berlin NW 7, in the Laenderbank Building. I was a
coworker of Ilgner there, became Prokurist of Farben soon after that, and
received, as I remember, the title Director, in 1934. I helped to build up the
Central Finance Administration and also was the deputy of Ilgner in the other
departments of the NW 7 organization which were later on built up around the
Central Finance Administration.
In October 1944, I changed over to the
Stickstoff-Syndikat in order to get acquainted with the work as successor of
the manager, Dr. Heinrich Oster. My position as deputy chief of Berlin NW 7 and
my knowledge of its activities up to 1944 enable me to make the following
statements:
The Berlin NW 7 organization of Farben was conceived as a
central point for the widespread financial and commercial interests of IG. It
was the exclusive and personal creation of Ilgner who founded it more or less
against the resistance of the Vorstand of IG and who continually expanded it.
The economic development in Germany, especially after 1933 with the beginning
of the state-guided economy, caused this organization to assume gradually more
importance after all than had been expected by its critics.
These
circumstances aided Dr. Ilgner in his attempts to create with his organization
within and outside of IG, a platform for his highly ambitious personal plans.
Ilgner had great ambitions, but greater still was his conviction that he was
destined to do great things, as well as his unusual desire for acclaim and
acknowledgment, which drove him to try to play a role in public life. His
activities were, therefore, never restricted to the work within the IG, but he
always strove to go beyond the confines of the firm into the field of general
economics, where, in committees and advisory councils, some of which were
initiated and created by him, he sought his real sphere of activity, and to
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