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[pos…] sible that these two documents at any time came to the
knowledge of I.G. Farben, or one of the members of the Vorstand, before they
were submitted here during the trial?
A. No, I think that is entirely
out of the question. I have read these reports in the document books of the
prosecution with great interest, because these reports gave me information
about events which occurred at the time, and about measures which were ordered,
but I did not know exactly which authorities had ordered them. The report of
September 1934, especially, shows exactly what was being planned and what was
being executed at the time. For instance, the commissioning of the Reich
Statistical Office to carry out statistical investigations; the appointments of
the Reich Commissioners; the creation of regional offices of the Reich Ministry
of Economics at the government supervisory offices [Regierungspraesidien], and
various other organizational measures which were at that time already being
guided by the Reich Ministry of Economics.
Q. Which you, however, did
not know as an existing plan?
A. No, I did not. |
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| F. The Four Year Plan |
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| I. INTRODUCTION |
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Count one of the indictment, under the major subdivision "C. Farben
Participated in Preparing the Four Year Plan and in Directing the Economic
Mobilization of Germany for War," charged Farben and its leaders with major
participation in the fulfillment of Germany's Four Year Plan and in making
Germany "ready for war in four years" (pars. 25-36). The greater part of the
evidence bearing directly on these charges has been grouped under two main
subsections. The evidence in the present subsection deals with the Four Year
Plan in general; the next major subsection, "G. The Krauch Office. The
Karinhall or Krauch Plan and Its Modifications," deals more particularly with
the relation of the Krauch Office and Farben to the execution of important
parts of the Four Year Plan and with related developments. Some of the evidence
in still later subsections necessarily overlaps the materials which follow
next.
This subsection is principally made up of contemporaneous
documents submitted by the prosecution (2 below). Numerous references to the
Four Year Plan will be found in testimony of defendants reproduced in later
subsections. At this point short extracts from testimony of the defendant
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