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were handled in a rather dilatory way and certainly did not have the
result which OKW and Abwehr had intended initially.
Q. Well, as early
as May 1941, do you recall Admiral Canaris conveying to you, through Major
Bloch, the gratitude of the OKW? If you don't remember just say so.
A.
I don't remember that now. Major Bloch later went to the Wehrmacht.
Q.
Do you remember that Major Bloch told you, before the United States and Russia
became involved in the war with Germany, that IG's strongest effort should be
in trying to get information from abroad concerning those countries with which
Germany was not yet at war, particularly the United States and the Soviet
Union?
A. I don't remember this special instance.
Q. I show you
Document NI-14271, which will become Prosecution
Exhibit 1904.* For my purposes it will be enough, if you just read the cover
page which indicates that you sent this report of the meeting with the Abwehr
of 2 May 1941, to thirty different places in IG. Farben, and the first page of
the actual report, which is included. The first two pages. Could you quickly
run through that, down to page 3 of the original? You won't have to go further
than page 3 of the original for my purposes.
A. Yes, this is the first
meeting which we had with the OKW representatives, and in this meeting the
program was laid down with the different points mentioned here. |
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E. Reorganization of Economy and Early Considerations of
Military Economy in the Third Reich |
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| I. INTRODUCTION |
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| This subsection contains material which, for the most part, is
preliminary to a number of the later subsections dealing with the evidence
submitted in connection with the charges of aggressive war. The contemporaneous
documents (2 below) include a number of the decrees which either the
prosecution or the defense introduced concerning the regulation of economy in
the Third Reich, and two contemporaneous documents introduced by the
prosecution concerning early conferences on military economy, economic
mobilization, and rearmament. The testimony of the defendant ter Meer (3 below)
discusses one of the documents containing a report of an early economic
mobilization and emphasizes the secrecy which surrounded such documents.
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* Reproduced above in
subsection D 2.
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