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A. No. I recall that the Armed Forces had a depot there, and I
believe an ammunition depot too, but not an explosive factory.
Q. Now,
in connection with mobilization plans of Donauchemie, did you send Dr. Warnecke
down to Austria in order to get those things in proper order during the year
1939?
A. I cannot recall that.
Q. Did you know whether or not
Donauchemie received its instructions from Leverkusen to propose, or to prepare
deferment schedules, for the workers who would be indispensable during a
possible war, less than six months before war actually broke out, or don't you
remember?
A. I cannot recall that.
Q. Did you know that certain
deadlines had been established with respect to fixing the mobilization tasks
for certain of the products which Donauchemie did produce in 1939?
A.
1939?
Q. Yes.
A. I cannot recall that Moosbierbaum produced any
materials at all which might have been of importance for mobilization.
Q. Now what about the plants of Donauchemie as a whole, not only
Moosbierbaum?
A. Even about the other plants it's the same. The only
thing you could talk of would be Landeck where ferrosilicon was produced to a
certain extent in lieu of ferro-carbide.
Q. In this connection, we will
introduce Document NI-14750, as Prosecution
Exhibit 2073.1 This is a letter from Dr. Warnecke in Leverkusen to Dr. Gorr of
Vermittlungsstelle W, in which he talks about certain discussions with you and
certain plans for Donauchemie plants in connection with Mob planning, dated 3
March 1939. Now we'd also like to introduce in that same connection Document
NI-14747 which will become Prosecution Exhibit 2074.² Now, yesterday you
spoke about Donauchemie having little or nothing to do with the Four Year Plan.
Did you know that Skoda-Wetzler, one of the subfirms affected by the
Donauchemie organization, applied to the defendant, von der Heyde, to get it
its number of identification within the Four Year Plan — or rather to get
a number of identification within the Four Year Plan because of the new
sulfuric acid plant at Mossbierbaum?
A. That might be possible, because
at that time it was extremely difficult to get material for building projects,
and we had laid the foundations for that factory. I have mentioned already
yesterday that we had started in 1938, and had finished the project only as
late as 1943. There, of course, it's possible that, |
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above.
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