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. NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNAL
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5. On 14 June 1939 I met Dr. Gajewski in the Hotel Adlon in Berlin at a meeting which had been suggested by the Generaldirektor of the IG, Geheimrat Schmitz, to discuss the situation created by my intention to emigrate to Brazil. Dr. Gajewski informed me that the Vorstand of the IG did not object to my emigration, despite my great expert knowledge, especially in the field of photography. He advised me to get in touch from Brazil with the Agfa subsidiary in the U.S.A., the Agfa Ansco in Binghamton, N. Y., (whose machines I had built myself in Wolfen in 1927/28) and to try to reach a working agreement with them. He himself would recommend me to the executives in Binghamton to help me to conclude such a contract. In view of the prevailing political situation, I was very much astonished by Dr. Gajewski's offer. Several days later I received the letter from the Vorstand of the IG, of which a photostatic copy is enclosed, which bears the signature of Dr. Gajewski. The copies of my answers are also attached.*

The sentence in my letter to Dr. Gajewski, dated 29 June 1939, "I shall never forget what you are doing for me now" I feel I ought to use on behalf of Dr. Gajewski who, I hear, is himself now in a difficult situation. That is why I feel compelled to make the above declaration under oath in favor of Dr. Gajewski. 
 
[Signed] DR. GERHARD OLLENDORFF 
  
  
 
D. Propaganda, Intelligence, Espionage, and
Related Matters  
 
I. INTRODUCTION  
 
One of the major subdivisions of count one of the indictment was entitled "I.G. Farben Carried on Propaganda, Intelligence, and Espionage Activities."

The specifications were set forth in nine paragraphs (58-66). A vast quantity of evidence was adduced on these charges by both the prosecution and the defense. The selections from this evidence reproduced herein have been grouped as follows: contemporaneous documents (2 below) ; an affidavit of the prosecution affiant Guenther Hausen, Farben bookkeeper, concerning disbursement by Farben agencies abroad to German diplomatic agencies and the Foreign Organization of the Nazi Party after 1940; and testimony by three defendants Mann, Ilgner, and Schneider. The materials reproduced herein have a particularly close relation to those in the preceding subsection, "C. The Alleged Alliance of Farben with Hitler and the Nazi Party." 
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* The enclosures are not reproduced herein.



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