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VI. DESTRUCTION OF DOCUMENTS 
 
A. Introduction 
 
Tons of documents of the Farben Konzern were destroyed by Farben officials shortly before the Allied occupation of Germany in 1945. Officials of the Farben Konzern testified that this was done upon orders of the counterintelligence officers of the German Army and the German Police. This section contains an affidavit on the destruction of documents by Karl von Heider, an official of Farben and a counterintelligence officer at Farben's central headquarters in Frankfurt, followed by the examination and cross-examination of von Heider on this matter (subsec. B). The last selection reproduced here is an affidavit of Dr. Struss, Chief of the Technical Committee of Farben's Vorstand (subsec. C). Although Struss was called for oral examination several times, he was not examined further about the destruction of documents. Judge Hebert, in his concurring opinion on the dismissal of the charges of aggressive war as to all defendants, stated in his opinion that the destruction of documents may have been the decisive factor in the prosecution's failure to establish criminal knowledge of plans for aggressive war beyond a reasonable doubt (sec. XIV, vol. VIII, this series). 
 
B. Affidavit and Testimony of Dr. von Heider, Farben Official
and Counterintelligence Officer 
 
I. AFFIDAVIT OF DR. KARL VON HEIDER 
 
  TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-9126
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 661
 
AFFIDAVIT OF DR. KARL VON HEIDER, 25 JULY 1947  
 
AFFIDAVIT 
 
I, Karl von Heider, Frankfurt a/M., Grillparzerstr. 83, having been warned that I shall be liable to punishment for making a false statement, state herewith under oath, of my own free will and without coercion, the following:




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