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| A. When the war broke out. The work for which I had worked all my
life had been destroyed. My slogan was, not to inflict wounds but to heal them.
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Q. During the examination of the defendant Schneider, the prosecution
introduced Document NT-14271, Prosecution Exhibit
1904,1 which consisted of minutes of a meeting held in Frankfurt under the
chairmanship of the defendant Schneider, on the 2d of May 1941, concerning
cooperation between the OKW Abwehr and Farben in obtaining intelligence from
abroad. Now, this exhibit records certain measures which were agreed upon at
the conference, one of which was that Farben would refer its representatives
who were going abroad to the Abwehr to carry out special missions for the
Abwehr. Did you participate in any Farben agency or committee meeting which
adopted or approved these measures?
A. I would ask permission to read
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MRS. KAUFMAN: My question is, did you participate in any Farben
agency or committee meeting which adopted or approved the measures indicated in
that exhibit?
A. I did
not attend this meeting. I never received the document. In my field of activity
I was not competent for dealing with those questions, and the only thing I can
see when I glance through this document is that it says here that in the
future, special reports of the Sparten and Sales Combines, as well as other
drafts of individual sales departments, are to be drawn up. Now, on the part of
the Sales Combine Bayer, such reports were not made, and I have to point out
again the exceptional case Kettniss, which I have already described in direct
examination.
Q. Now, in that connection, I want to read to you a very
short excerpt from the minutes of the meeting of the Commercial Committee held
on 8 July 1941 (Document NI-6086, Prosecution Exhibit 370),² which
states under the heading "Mobilization Questions": "Dr. von der Heyde reports
on the conference which took place on the 2d of May 1941 in Frankfurt under the
chairmanship of Christian Schneider. The measures agreed upon in this
conference are approved by the Commercial Committee." Does that refresh your
recollection that you participated in a Farben meeting approving the measures I
referred to?
A. I know for certain that the contents of this letter
were not submitted to the KA meeting. I think that my recollection is quite
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subsection D 2.
² Not reproduced herein.
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