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you were not on the Vorstand, we need not go into this. Because of
your work in 1938 in Czechoslovakia, I should merely like to ask you, did you
have anything to do with the approval of the contribution of 100,000 marks for
the Sudeten Relief project?¹
DEFENDANT KUGLER: No, that was not
under my jurisdiction.
Q. Did you hear about it afterwards?
A.
Yes, I did. I cannot tell you the exact date.
Q. Did you hear anything
in the course of your work which indicated the purpose of this contribution?
A. No. I was convinced that it was for purely charitable purposes; that
is, that it was to help out the refugees in their distress; that in those weeks
and months, many Sudeten Germans fled to Germany; I had not only read it in the
newspapers but I had more direct evidence of that.
Q. You are referring
to a letter which you received at the time?
A. Yes, Document 27.
Q. This letter, which confirms what my client has just said is my
Document 27 from document book II, which I offer as Kugler Defense
Exhibit 25.² [*] |
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6. TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE WITNESS MILCH AND
PROSECUTION WITNESS
OHLENDORF |
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| a. Testimony of Erhard Milch |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE
WITNESS ERHARD
MILCH³ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch) : Tell us the position
of industry in a dictatorship and its relationship to the authority of the
state?
WITNESS MILCH: In
regard to the whole question of private industry, Hitler was not quite definite
up to 1933. It was generally believed that he would remove private industry and
have it nationalized. He did not do so; but he distrusted industry. He was also
afraid that his main work, which was to adjust the differences between labor
and capital and the state might be |
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¹ See Document
NI-1318, Prosecution Exhibit 834. reproduced in
subsection C 4. Introduced also as Kugler Document 27, Kugler Defense Exhibit
25.
² Reproduced in subsection C 4.
³ Complete testimony is
recorded in the mimeographed transcript. 15 January and 5 March 1948, pp.
5296-5347; and 8335-8550. Further extracts are reproduced above in section V B
1.
[* Transcriber's note: This reference is apparently incorrect. It
should refer to: Document Kluger 25, Kluger Defense Exhibit 27 instead of
vice-versa — HWM]
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