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| motive is, perhaps, a more irrational motive. My ancestors, beginning
with my grandfather, were all farmers, and they all loved the soil. My soil was
the plant for which I was responsible, and I felt an obligation to retain and
maintain the plant, the fate of which was entrusted to me. |
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I. Stockpiling, Storage of Materials, and
Dispersal of Production |
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| 1. INTRODUCTION |
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Count one of the indictment, under the major subdivision, "E.
Farben Procured and Stockpiled Critical War Materials for the Nazi Offensive,"
alleged that Farben officials and various Farben plants or agencies engaged in
stockpiling of various kinds in connection with preparations for aggressive war
(pars. 46-48). These allegations are closely related to the question of the
dispersal of production, and the two subjects are both covered by the evidence
included below.
The materials in the present subsection are arranged as
follows: contemporaneous documents (2 below) ; an
affidavit of Prosecution Witness Wagner, an official of Farben's Liaison Office
Wehrmacht (3 below) ; an affidavit and. related testimony of Prosecution
Witness Struss, chief of the office of Farben's Technical Committee (4 below) ;
testimony of Prosecution Witness Elias (5 below) ; extracts from an
interrogation and the testimony of Defendant von Knieriem (6 below) ; and
testimony of seven defendants, Krauch, ter Meer, Schneider, Buergin,
Buetefisch, Haefliger, and Wurster (7 below). |
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