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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-2795
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
1046 |
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CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO CONTRIBUTION MADE
BY FARBEN FOR
GOVERNMENT'S USE IN SUDETENLAND |
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1. Telegram from, Defendant
Schmitz to Hitler, 20 September 1938, Placing 500,000 Reichsmarks at Hitler's
Disposal for Use in the Sudeten German Territory |
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Z. A.
BUERO
[Office of Central Committee]
1 October 1938
[Handwritten
initial] H |
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| Telegram |
| 30 September 1938 |
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| To the Fuehrer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, Berlin Profoundly
impressed by the return of the Sudetenland to the Reich which you, my Fuehrer,
have achieved, the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. puts an amount of half a million
reichsmarks at your disposal for use in the Sudetenland
territory. |
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| Signed: HERMANN SCHMITZ |
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| Copy to Geheimrat Schmitz, Dr. Ilgner, Directorate, Office of Central
Committee, Frankfurt a.M. |
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2. Reply from Meissner, Chief
of the Presidential Chancellory of the Fuehrer and
Reichschancellor |
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Z. A. — Buero — 4 October
1938
Vosstrasse 1, Berlin W 8, 30 — 9 — 1938
[Date
crossed out and substituted by 4 Oct.] |
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COPY
The State Minister and Chief of the
Presidential Chancellory of the Fuehrer and
Reich Chancellor
My
dear Geheimrat!
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor has asked me to send
you his sincere thanks for your telegram and the contribution of an amount of
500,000 reichsmarks in favor of the Sudetenland territory.
The Fuehrer
has transmitted your contribution to the Sudetenland Relief Fund; in accordance
with his instructions, I ask you to |
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