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in order to get materials, we pointed out a certain importance for
that project.
Q. Well, did you have the idea that the authorities at
that time were of the opinion that the entire planned expansion of Donauchemie
was really not important within the scope of the Four Year Plan?
A. Mr.
Prosecutor, that went in one direction and the other during those years. At one
occasion this sulfuric acid installation was considered extremely important,
and then perhaps two months later we would receive information: “No, we
have no further interest in that matter.” Then later again we received
instructions that we would have to push on that matter immediately and finish
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DR. NATH (counsel for defendant Kuehne) : I now come to the next
exhibit. This is Document NI-14750 Prosecution
Exhibit 2073, and I shall take the next one too — Document NI-14747,
Prosecution Exhibit 2074. This is a letter from Leverkusen to
Vermittlungsstelle W in Berlin, dated 3 March 1939. Can I ask you first who
signed this letter of 3 March?
DEFENDANT KUEHNE: I see no signature
here. But according to the sign on this letter it was my secretary, Dr.
Warnecke.
Q. Did your secretary, Dr. Warnecke, have certain functions
in Leverkusen?
A. Dr. Warnecke and a Dr. Dobmeier had to keep contact
with Vermittlungsstelle W and the offices in Berlin, and also with the other
Farben plants.
Q. In the second paragraph of this letter it is said
that a visit to the Reich Office for Economic Development had been suggested by
Dr. Pohland. Will you please tell us briefly what the purpose of this visit
was?
A. That is stated in the letter in the next sentence, namely: in
order to discuss with Mr. Pohland the project for the establishment of a
sulfuric acid factory at Moosbierbaum. In my examination by my counsel I stated
that the first thing that I had done at Moosbierbaum for modernization in 1938
was lay the cornerstone for a new sulfuric acid factory which was to replace
the old building. Now, as early as 1938, we got no more raw materials unless
the project in question was approved by the Office of Economic Development in
Berlin, and Mr. Pohland had to approve the sulfuric acid factories. Therefore,
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