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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-15027
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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LETTER FROM DEFENDANT KUEHNE TO DEFENDANT SCHMITZ,
18 OCTOBER
1941, CONCERNING A MEETING OF GOVERNMENT,
PARTY, AND INDUSTRIAL LEADERS AT
WHICH REICH MINISTER
FUNK STATED THAT "WITHOUT THE GERMAN IG AND ITS
ACHIEVEMENTS IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE
TO WAGE THIS
WAR" |
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I.G. Leverkusen
Direktions-Abteilung
[Management] |
| 18 October 1941 S |
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Personal
Confidential |
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Geheimrat Dr. H. Schmitz, I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G.
Berlin N.W.
7, Unter den Linden 78
Dear Geheimrat Schmitz,
Unfortunately,
despite my efforts, I was unable to find you at yesterday's meeting in honor of
Geheimrat Poensgen. I inquired regarding you from various gentlemen, among them
Herr v. Siemens and Herr Binge], as I heard from my secretary that you wanted
to come and thought that perhaps these gentlemen had come with you from Berlin.
However, nobody could tell me whether you were present. Nor did I see you at
the lunch which followed. I had hoped to see you at the invitation which
Gauleiter Florian¹ had arranged for a small circle, and only there I
learned from Herr Zangen that you had been present.
I would now like to
take this opportunity to inform you about an interesting discussion which took
place there, even at the risk of relating what is known to you already.
First of all there was an invitation to lunch from Herr Florian for a
small circle, at which Minister Funk² and his staff also participated and
at four o'clock, at the suggestion of Gauleiter Florian, Funk extended an
invitation to tea. At this invitation there were present as representatives of
the Rhenish-Westphalian industry: |
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Herr Zangen
Herr Zucker,
President of the Chamber of Commerce
of
Dusseldorf
Herr Pleiger³ |
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¹ Florian wasthe
Gauleiter of the Nazi Party for the Gau Duesseldorf.
² Walther Funk
was a defendant in the IMT Case. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. See
''Trial of the Major War Criminals," vol. 1, pp.
365 and
366.
³ Paul Pleiger,
Chairman of the Vorstand of the Herman Goering Works and Reich Plenipotentiary
for Coal, was a defendant in the Ministries case. He was sentenced to 15 years
imprisonment See vols. XII-XIV, this series.
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