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the plant at Nachterstedt for a production of 2,000 tons of nickel
per year.
By order:
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Heil Hitler!
[Signed] PAUL PLEIGER¹ |
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Copy/He
Minister President, General Goering
Plenipotentiary for the Four Year
Plan
Office for German Raw Materials and Synthetics
Journal No. 1591/37
IV/1 H/Sch
[Stamp] Secret |
Berlin, 7 December 1937
Behrenstrasse
68-70 |
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| CERTIFICATE |
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This is to certify to the I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
that the establishment of a plant for the purpose of producing nickel at
Nachterstedt was initiated by the Office for German Raw Materials and
Synthetics. This is a priority construction project for the Four Year
Plan.²
By
order |
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| Signed: RHEINLAENDER |
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¹ Paul Pleiger was a
defendant in Case 11 at Nuernberg. Among other positions. he was chairman of
the Vorstand of the Hermann Goering Works.
² In an affidavit. Document
Haefliger 25, Haefliger Defense Exhibit 16, the defendant Haefliger stated that
the request for the construction of this plant by the Reich was prompted
“to a large extent by the consideration that the import of pure nickel was
to be restricted as far as possible so as to save foreign exchange. * * * In
1937, the IG began the construction of the new plant for the production of
nickel in Frose-Nachterstedt in Central Germany. But this new plant was not
able to operate at all before the war, and towards the end of the war only with
a small fraction of its capacity. (Note. The IG always regarded this plant as a
nuisance which was forced on it, end was convinced that the plant was
uneconomic. The Ludwigshafen management, directed by Dr. Mueller-Cunradi, which
had been charged with the construction, only made very slow progress with the
erection, and constantly pretended that there was some other and more urgent
work on hand. This got them into a dangerous position in front of the Speer
Ministry in 1944.)”
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