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has built all the buna plants, one has to continue to work in the
field where one is an expert.
Q. Mr. Ambros, I am very much interested
in knowing whether on the one hand you can say "I was ordered by the state to
have a certain quota production"; for perhaps on the other hand you, yourself,
had some state position and ordered this production quota.
A. I can
answer that very clearly. I was never in any state organization. I was no state
official.
Q. Now the prosecution has submitted a document in book 20,
Document NI-5687, Prosecution Exhibit 438, a
letter of 27 June 1938.¹ Do you remember this letter?
A. Is this
the letter to Krauch?
Q. Yes. A. Is this the letter — I don't have
it here — where it was debatable whether it is a letter at all?
Q.
We have discussed it here already. I asked the witness about it. This letter
has no signature and no address.
A. Yes, I know. According to my
recollection, that was an exposé [memorandum] for me. It did not go out
as a letter to Mr. Krauch, as he himself confirmed from this witness
stand.² I would have used some form of address in writing to Krauch. I
would not just write, "Professor Krauch"; and I would have signed it. I would
also have observed outward appearances and would have filled all the pages in a
similar way, but I hear that the original shows pages of different lengths. But
quite aside from all that, I will be glad to explain the contents of this
letter because I believe it contains ideas that I actually held at that time.
Q. Mr. Ambros, first of all I merely want to ask you, was this letter,
or a similar one, ever sent to Professor Krauch?
A. No, as far as I can
remember, it was not. |
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Q. Mr. Ambros, we stopped yesterday with the discussion of a letter
submitted by the prosecution which bears the name of Director Dr. Krauch at the
head but which was not signed. I am referring to Exhibit 438, in book 20, page
82 in the English. Do you have it?
A. Yes.
Q. Please comment briefly on this letter
— page 82 of the English book.
A. Even if this document was not
sent out, I would like to say something about the ideas expressed in this
draft. Under "a," it is said that in the year 1938, industry was greatly
overburdened; |
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¹ Reproduced in 5
above.
² See testimony of defendant Krauch reproduced in immediately preceding
subsection.
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