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3. THE MEETING OF CERTAIN LEADING INDUSTRIALISTS WITH
HITLER,
GOERING, AND SCHACHT IN FEBRUARY 1933, AND
THE RAISING OF FUNDS FOR THE
ELECTION OF MARCH 1933 |
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COPY
OF
DOCUMENT EC-439
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 36 |
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AFFIDAVIT OF THE DEFENDANT VON SCHNITZLER CONCERNING
THE
HITLER-GOERING-SCHACHT MEETING WITH INDUSTRIALISTS
BEFORE THE ELECTION OF
MARCH 1933¹ |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF GEORG VON SCHNITZLER |
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I, Georg von Schnitzler, a member of the Vorstand of I.G. Farben,
make the following deposition under oath:
At the end of February 1933,
4 members of the Vorstand of I.G. Farben including Dr. Bosch, the head of the
Vorstand, and myself, were asked by the office of the president of the
Reichstag [Goering] to attend a meeting in his house,² the purpose of
which was not given. I do not remember the two other colleagues of mine who
were also invited. I believe the invitation reached me during one of my
business trips to Berlin. I went to the meeting which was attended by about 20
persons who, I believe, were mostly leading industrialists from the Ruhr.
Among those present I remember:
Dr. Schacht, who at that time
was not yet head of the Reichsbank again, and not yet Minister of Economics.
Krupp von Bohlen, who, in the beginning of 1933, was president of the
Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie [Reich Association of German Industry],
which later on was changed to the semiofficial organization "Reichsgruppe
Industrie" [Reich Group Industry].
Dr. Albert Vogler, the leading man
of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke.
Von Loewenfeld from an industrial work in
Essen.
Dr. Stein, head of the Gewerkschaft Auguste-Victoria, a mine
which belongs to the IG. Dr. Stein was an active member of the Deutsche
Volkspartei.
I remember that Dr. Schacht acted as a kind of
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¹ This affidavit was
introduced in the IMT case as Exhibit USA 618. Von Schnitzler was not called
for cross-examination in the IMT case. In the Farben case, defendant von
Schnitzler did did not elect to testify. Pursuant to a ruling of the Tribunal,
affidavits of defendants who did not take the stand were admissible only
against the defendant who had executed the affidavit. (see vol. XV, this
series, section XVIII K 6.)
² The telegraphic invitation to Gustav
Krupp to attend this meeting is reproduced immediately below.
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