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| C. The Alleged Alliance of Farben with Hitler and the Nazi
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| I. INTRODUCTION |
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The first major subdivision of count one of the indictment was
entitled, "A. The Alliance of Farben with Hitler and the Nazi Party." The
specifications under this subdivision (pars. 6 through 18) overlapped with many
of the more detailed specifications of later major subdivisions of count one.
Similarly, the evidence included in the present section has a close relation to
numerous documents and to much of the testimony reproduced in later sections of
this volume.
Beginning with the charge in paragraph 6, that Farben and
Hitler "found a basis for close collaboration as early as 1932," subdivision A
concluded with allegations in paragraph 18 that: "Having played an
indispensable role in preparing Germany for aggressive wars, Farben then played
an indispensable role in the waging of such wars" and that the alliance with
Hitler "was broken only by the force of arms in May 1945."
The evidence
reproduced in the present section is arranged as follows: documents and
testimony concerning the meeting of the defendants Buetefisch and Gattineau
with Hitler in November 1932, before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany (2
below); evidence concerning a meeting of leading industrialists in Goering's
official residence in February 1933, at which Hitler, Goering, and Schacht
spoke in connection with the solicitation of funds for the Reichstag elections
of March 1933 (3 below); various contemporaneous documents, dated between 1933
and 1944, bearing on Farben's position in the Third Reich and the relation
between a number of Farben leaders and the Nazi state and Party during the
Hitler period (4 below) ; testimony of defendants Krauch, ter Meer, Schneider,
Gajewski, Haefiiger, Kuehne, and Kugler (5 below); testimony of two defense
witnesses, Milch and Ohlendorf (6 below) and affidavits of two defense
affiants, Hoffmann and Ohlendorff (7 below). |
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