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(4) SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Grothmann
A copy of the letter of
Reich Minister Speer, dated 26 July 1944, is enclosed.
By order:
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[Illegible signature]
SS Hauptsturmfuehrer, 30 July |
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5. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KRAUCH. TER MEER, SCHNEIDER,
GAJEWSKI,
HAEFLIGER, KUEHNE, AND KUGLER |
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| a. Testimony of Defendant Krauch |
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[Statement from the judgment concerning
personal history, positions, and affiliations of Defendant Carl Krauch:
"KRAUCH Carl: Born 7 April 1887, Darmstadt, Germany. Doctor of natural
science, professor of chemistry. Member of Vorstand and of its Control
Committee; member and chairman of Aufsichtsrat 1940-1945; chief of Sparte I,
1929-1938; chief of Berlin Liaison Office (Vermittlungsstelle W) ; member of
the board in a number of major Farben subsidiaries and affiliates, including
the Ford Works at Cologne.
"In April 1936 placed in charge of the
Research and Development Department for Raw Materials and Foreign Currency on
Goering's staff; October 1936 in charge of Research and Development Department
in the Office of German Raw Materials and Synthetics under the Four Year Plan;
July 1938-1945, Plenipotentiary General for Special Questions of Chemical
Production; December 1939, Commissioner for Economic Development under Four
Year Plan; 1938-1945, Military Economy Leader; member of Directorate, Reich
Research Council.
1937, member of Nazi Party; member of NSFK; member of
German Labor Front."] |
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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT KRAUCH* |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch) : Did you have any
connections with leading National Socialist circles before 1933?
DEFENDANT KRAUCH: No, in no way at all, neither in an economic nor
social nor political sense.
Q. In this connection, would you describe,
very briefly, as you told me once before, how in 1932, you were approached with
the offer to participate in founding a National Socialist newspaper?
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 12, 13, 14. 16, and 19 January 1948.
pp. 5037-5258; 5379-5469; and 5514-5571. Further extracts are reproduced below
in subsections F 3. G 7a, H 4a, I 7a, L 3a, and N 5b, and in section IX F 1.
volume VIII, this series.
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