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A. No.
Q. Did you know Dr. Wurster personally?
A. No.
Q. Do you know that the Farben plants in Ludwigshafen-Oppau in 1939,
when the war broke out, had no obligatory mobilization production plans?
A. No.
Q. How am I to understand your answer?
A. I do
not know whether they had a mobilization plan nor how far their work had
progressed.
Q. Then I have a final question. The prosecutor pointed out
various passages from these reports; in particular, those which dealt with
questions of shifting and transferring plants and stocks from endangered
territories. I want to ask you for something you should know from your expert
knowledge. Could the plant leader of a plant in this danger zone conclude, from
these measures or considerations of the authorities, that Hitler intended to
wage a war of aggression? I emphasize the words "war of aggression."
A.
No. |
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4. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANTS KRAUCH, TER MEER,
BUERGIN, KUEHNE, AND
WURSTER |
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| a. Testimony of Defendant Krauch |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT
KRAUCH¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch):
I shall repeat
my question, Dr. Krauch. The prosecution has offered this letter of 5 September
1935, Document NI-4702, Prosecution Exhibit 101,2
document book 5, English page 80, German page 82, as especially incriminating
regarding knowledge and promotion of a war of aggression. What do you have to
say about this document?
DEFENDANT KRAUCH: I see in this document a
circular letter sent to all the plants under Sparte I. Special emphasis is
given to the importance of defense economy and defense-political questions. The
date is September 1935. This was in connection with |
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¹ Further extracts are
reproduced above in subsections C 5a, F S. G 7e. below in subsections I 7a, L
3a, N 5b, and in section IX F 1. volume VIII, this series.
²
Reproduced in 2 above.
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