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| the year 1930, I was transferred to Frankfurt and there I became a
jurist in the so-called "Legal Department Dyestuffs" which was legal consultant
for the entire dyestuffs sales agency, that is, the Sales Combine Dyestuffs.
Around the end of 1938, I became Director of this Legal Department Dyestuffs.
Besides that, I was in charge of insurance matters for Farben and its own
insurance company, the Pallas G.m.b.H. Konzernversicherung. |
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Q. In connection with wars of aggression, the prosecution has
submitted two documents giving Goering's speech of 17 December 1936, in the
"Preussenhaus." This speech is reproduced in Document NI-051, Prosecution Exhibit 421.1 It is headed:
"Minister President General Goering on the Execution of the Four Year Plan."
May I ask you: Do you know Goering's speech in this form? Do you know this
document?
A. I do not.
Q. To save time, I asked you to look at
this document beforehand. Do you recall that Goering made such a speech at that
time?
A. I recall it only because this speech contains the notorious
concluding words: "We are already on the threshold of mobilization and are at
war — only the guns are not yet being fired." That is the only sentence
that I remember from this speech.
Q. Now, the prosecution has submitted
the record of the meeting of the Dyestuff Committee of 22 December 1936 —
that is, Document NI-4192, Prosecution Exhibit
423.2 This meeting was presided over by Dr. von Schnitzler. On the first page
is a list of those present, and you are one of them. This document contains
only excerpts. It is a very long record. The prosecution has quoted the opening
sentence: "Herr von Schnitzler gave a highly confidential report about the
statements by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor as well as by Minister President
General Goering on 17 December in Berlin concerning the tasks of the German
economy in the execution of the Four Year Plan."
Do you recall that
Schnitzler reported to the Dyestuffs Committee on this speech, and will you
please explain what the words "strictly confidential" in the minutes mean?
A. That this speech was held in the Dyestuffs Committee I did not
remember —
Q. Pardon me for interrupting you. The speech was not
made in the Dyestuffs Committee.
A. That a report was made on this
speech in the Dyestuffs Committee I did not remember until I saw these minutes
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¹ Reproduced in 2
above.
² Reproduced in part above in this section.
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