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| A. I worked on this preliminary work - the so-called evacuation
orders which were given out by the General Staff of the Army. I can't tell you
the exact date when these orders were issued. The evacuation orders were part
of the so-called Mobilization Plan "Army." It was quite independent of
political developments. When it says here "15 September," that is just a chance
coincidence with a political tension. We had begun preparations for evacuation
much earlier. The plans were checked annually and new plants were included in
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DR. HEINTZELER (associate counsel for defendant Wurster):
Witness, during cross-examination by the prosecution you were shown an
extensive document. That document was called by the prosecution an excerpt from
the weekly reports of the Feldwirtschaftsamt for the time, June 1938 to May
1940. Was there a Feldwirtschaftsamt already at that time?
WITNESS
HUENERMANN: No. I emphasized that the Feldwirtschaftsamt emanated from the
Wehrwirtschaftsstab. In 1944, the Wehrwirtschaftsstab was renamed after
Minister Speer took over all armaments questions from the OKW.
Q. When
looking through those documents, Witness, did you notice that practically all
of the entries and reports in that document are called drafts, and that they
don't bear any signature? May I hand you the document once more? May I ask you
please, Witness, to answer my question?
A. This is not a final weekly
report to which one can attach importance, but these are drafts by experts from
the Raw Materials Department 3 of the Raw Materials Division, and this draft of
Department 3 was first sent to the department chief who issued it. Frequently,
we made changes in these drafts and this was done because the experts in
question who were working only on the limited deal of their own knowledge could
not see the large-scale connections and thus perhaps created the wrong picture.
And something else I want to emphasize; he might incorrectly represent the
competencies and jurisdictions of his field of work, and thus he also sometimes
used wrong expressions.
Q. In these drafts, conferences are mentioned
frequently which were held with other agencies or with firms. Can you see from
those drafts who participated on behalf of the Army, the Wehrmacht, and the
Wehrwirtschaft [military-economic] agencies in these conferences? I may remark
that in the explanation to this document the prosecution has pointed out that
those documents allegedly show that leading officials dealing with
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