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Command," count one of the indictment dealt principally with the
establishment and functioning of a special Farben agency, the Liaison Office
Wehrmacht, and mobilization planning. During the trial, the Liaison Office
Wehrmacht was frequently referred to by its common German title,
"Vermittlungsstelle W," without any translation. Considerable evidence on the
specifications of this subdivision of the indictment is also reproduced in
later subsections.
The materials in the present subsection are arranged
as follows: contemporaneous document (2 below) testimony of defense witness
Huenermann, Chief of Staff of the Military Economics Staff of the High Command
of the Armed Forces (3 below), and testimony of five defendants, Krauch, ter
Meer, Buergin, Kuehne, and Wurster (4 below). |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-2147
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| DR. EICHWEDE'S NOTES ON VERMITTLUNGSSTELLE W¹ |
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| VERMITTLUNGSSTELLE W (Liaison Office
Wehrmacht) |
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| Since 1934, conferences and discussion with various military offices
and authorities in Berlin became more frequent and urgent. At the meeting of
the Central Committee at Ludwigshafen on 2 September 1935, it was decided to
create, effective 1 October 1935, a Liaison Office W (Wehrmacht) in Berlin
which was to take over and to maintain the connection between the three Sparten
of IG and the military authorities. In a letter to ter Meer dated 5 September
1935,² Dr. Krauch indicates that Sparte I was represented by Dr. Ritter
and thereafter also by Dr. Eckell. For Sparte II, Dr. von Bruening, Hoechst,
will be sent to the "Central Office for Questions of Military Economy and
Policy" [Zentralstelle fuer wehrwirtschaftliche und wehrpolitische Fragen]. By
Dr. Gajewski's letter of 7 November 1935 to the plants of Sparte III,
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¹ At the instruction
of Dr. Ernst Struss, chief of the Office of Farben's Technical Committee, Dr.
Eichwede compiled elaborate notes on various aspects of Farben's history. These
notes were made before the German collapse and are therefore contemporaneous
documents. The introduction to the actual notes states: ‘Notes on the
Founding, Development, Organization and Members of TEA — Sparte II —
and Committees of the I. G. Farbenindustrie up to the end of 1943, volume I;
TEA and Sparte II — Committees (including Dyestuffs Committee) and
Commercial Committee, Volume II: Personal Data. Volume III. Prepared by order
of Dr. Struss by Dr. Heinz Eichwede.’
² On 5 September 1931.
Krauch sent a circular letter (NI-4701, Pros. Ex.
101, reproduced immediately below) to a member of Farben plants and branches.
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