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done with them. At least, that is the case with many products. We
know something definite about what happens to our products only if they have a
very definite, limited military use. If, for example, a product can be used
only to be made into an explosive in an explosives factory, then we
chemists at Farben know very well that this serves rearmament; but in the case
of all the products where dozens of different things can be made from them, we
do not know where they will end up. I must therefore, in contemplating Farben's
participation in rearmament, limit myself to those products where we
know that they served military rearmament. That is the case in supplying
powder and explosives factories with acids, diglycol, nitrotoluene,
pentaerythrite, and other things. That is the case in the powder stabilizers
supplied to powder factories. That would include poison gas (chemical
warfare agents) if we had produced them before the outbreak of the war; and
that would also include certain special products, for example, in the case of
dyestuffs, special dyestuffs for flare ammunition, smoke-screen chemicals,
etc.; also special lubricants for airplanes and the well-known iso-octane as a
high-grade fuel. We had only experimental plants for the latter two products up
to the outbreak of war. I have outlined but not listed all the products. If I
add up the turnover of the outlined products for the year 1938, I come to less
than fifty million marks in one year. That would be about 3 percent of the net
turnover of Farben at the time. An affidavit on these figures will be worked
out and handed in later.
You asked me about standby plants. |
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| [The ensuing testimony concerning standby plants is reproduced below
in subsection K 3] |
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4. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KUEHNE CONCERNING
APPOINTMENTS TO THE
KRAUCH OFFICE |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KUEHNE* |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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MR. SPRECHER: We have a few questions concerning appointments to the
Krauch Office in Berlin before the war. In 1936 or 1937, did you communicate
with Krauch concerning appointments to the Office for German Raw Materials and
Synthetics?
DEFENDANT KUEHNE: I cannot remember well, but at all times
I had a certain opposition against the Krauch Office, particularly as far as
requests for experts from my plant were concerned.
Q. Describe why you
had this opposition, to a greater extent, please. |
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* Further extracts appear
above in subsection C 5 f, and below n subsection H 4d.
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