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that the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. should store these goods
themselves and only charge them to the Wehrmacht on demand. The I.G.
Farbenindustrie A.G., however, declined to do this, and the final result was as
follows:
The goods were first charged to the Wehrmacht and were then
stored. I.G. Farbenindustrie event went so far as to send to the Wehrmacht
accounts for the storage of these goods in warehouses (rent for storage).
4. I acquired my knowledge of stockpiling orders for I.G.
Farbenindustrie through the fact that these orders generally went to
Vermittlungsstelle W, and from there were forwarded to the business offices in
Frankfurt; further, through the fact that Vermittlungsstelle W then transmitted
the detailed offer from Frankfurt to the Wehrmacht office concerned. Besides
this, I often knew in Vermittlungsstelle W of the Wehrmacht's instructions for
the dispatch of the products to be delivered, frequently because the Wehrmacht
often availed itself of the IG teleprinter for transmitting these instructions
to the merchants or suppliers. Through discussions with the other members of
Vermittlungsstelle W, I learned in a general way of the directions of the Reich
Offices, especially of the Reich Office Chemistry, for the storing of products
which remained the property of Farben.
The purely IG storages,
particularly in the so-called “dispersal depots,” I learned of
incidentally through the specialists of the Sales Combine Chemicals, or again,
through discussions with colleagues of Sparte I inside Vermittlungsstelle W, or
also — as in the case of dyestuffs stocks — in the Monday conferences
of the Technical Committee.
5. For the sake of clarity, I should like
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1. Stockpiling carried out by
I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. of its own accord.
2. Stockpiling carried out
by the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. on instruction of the Reich Office [for
Economic Development] and Economic Group Chemistry.
3. Stockpiling
based on stockpiling orders of the Army, the Luftwaffe, and the Navy.
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1. Stockpiling carried out by the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. of its
own accord
a. When I came to Vermittlungsstelle W in
February 1938, I learned that there was a dyestuffs warehouse at Luebeck. The
stocks of dyestuffs stored there were supposed to represent an
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