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rearmament, which the Raw Materials and Foreign Exchange Staff had
drawn up in the program of saving foreign exchange. And I believe there were
some points which went beyond Germany, according to what we heard here.
Q. Now another question, Mr. Ambros: Did you have any influential
position in the organization of the Reich offices as set up in 1938, or were
you completely outside this official organization?
A. I was outside
this official organization. I was not [acting] in any official capacity.
Q. In individual cases, as for example, apparently here as in diglycol
or the poison gas field, or buna, were you approached only as a chemist
informed in this field, or as an organizer?
A. I was approached as the
chemist who at that time was building the first two buna factories; or I was
approached about diglycol as the chemist in Germany who was in charge of
ethylene chemistry, which I took over from my predecessor, Dr. Schumann, from
1934; and before the war I was connected with poison gas, with the group of
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Q. Now you were also on the Special Committee "C." This was only
formed in 1943, and if the development of chemical warfare agents was concluded
in 1943, then I would like to know why this Special Committee "C" was founded
in 1943, and what was its mission?
A. In 1943, the organization of the
representatives of industrial economy was set up, and in this organization
there was a Central Committee for Powder and Explosives.
Q. Mr. Ambros,
I would like to interrupt you briefly, and I would like to introduce Ambros
Document 5, Ambros Defense Exhibit 5* On the basis of this sketch, which is on
page 37 of the English document book, please explain the position of the
Special Committee "C." Do you have this?
A. Yes.
Q. Where is this Special Committee "C" on
this picture?
A. At the bottom, on the right. The sketch shows in its
upper half the ministerial level, and in the lower half these representatives
of the private industrialists. In the Central Committee, Powder and Explosives,
there were subcommittees, and one of these subcommittees, one of hundreds of
them, was Committee "C."
Q. All right, Mr. Ambros; now I come to a
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