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is some proper explanation or testimony that you wish to give with
respect to it, you will be afforded an opportunity to do so. Counsel has said
that she is not interested in asking any question about it. Lay it aside for
the time being and later on you can testify about it.*
MRS. KAUFMAN: Do
you recall —
DEFENDANT MANN: Your Honor, I apologize, but there
must be a mistake; otherwise I wouldn't insist here and wouldn't take the
liberty to address the Tribunal, but there must be a mistake here, because in
this document it is just said what I am stating now — that our business
interests were not to be brought into the political field, and that is not in
line with the question put by the prosecutor and certainly not with the
purposes.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Well, it is entirely possible that the
prosecution is trying to substantiate what you said, Doctor. We are not
concerned about it.
MRS. KAUFMAN: I am going to repeat my question.
Concerning Verbindungsmaenner, didn't you refer Nazi Party officials to your
Verbindungsmaenner abroad for whatever assistance they could give them?
DEFENDANT MANN: I am afraid that I haven't quite understood that.
Q. Did you refer Nazi Party officials going abroad to your
Verbindungsmaenner abroad for whatever assistance your Verbindungsmaenner could
give to these Nazi Party officials?
A. You mean state officials or
officials of the Foreign Organization?
Q. Officials of the Foreign
Organization of the Nazi Party.
A. I personally have no knowledge of
any such instance, but I think that it is quite possible within the framework
of the policy of a certain reconciliation which I have already outlined.
Q. Now, you testified that after Munich you expressed your joy, during
a meeting, that the danger of world war was removed by the Munich Agreement. At
that time, who did you think had called the immediate danger of a world war,
just before Munich?
A. I am not a politician, and I certainly couldn't
decide that. It is a question which is still disputed by many scholars even
today.
Q. Now, you stated on Thursday that misfortune saw to it that
your Bayer works, which, until 1933, had a peaceful and successful course, fell
into a period of time which, by the dictatorship of the Third Reich and its
inhumane laws and measures, came into clear contradiction with the aims and the
work of Bayer and your life. When did you first realize this alleged
contradiction? |
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* This document was not
mentioned during the direct examination.
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