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emergency reserve of the most important dyestuffs manufactured by the
IG.¹
b. Shortly before the outbreak of war, large
quantities of nickel matte were procured by I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. from
Canada and put into storage.²
c. Bleaching clay [Kaolin] and
bauxite were stored by I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. before the outbreak of war in
a "buffer depot" [Pufferlager] in Leverkusen.
2. Stockpiling carried
out by I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. on instructions
from
the Reich Office and Economic Group Chemistry
a. Iron pyrites were stored by instructions of the Reich
Group Chemistry in 1939 for about 1 year.³
b. I.G.
Farbenindustrie A.G., shortly before the beginning of the war, or in 1940,
built up some reserve stocks of plastics which they could dispose of only with
the approval of the Reich Office Chemistry which had ordered the stockpiling.
These plastics included, among other things, polystyrene, which was used for
the production of varnishes and also for fuse parts in die casting. Polystyrene
varnishes are very weather-resistant and, for this reason, were demanded by the
Navy and the Luftwaffe. The Navy itself, however, remained for the most part in
the background and passed its orders to the varnish firms by way of the Reich
Office Chemistry.
c. Stabilizers were, to my knowledge,
stockpiled already before the war with the explosives manufacturers, especially
with the Dynamit Nobel A.G. I do not know anything about the extent of the
stockpiling, as the firm of Dynamit Nobel A.G. did not distinguish in its
orders to the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. between current requirements and
stockpiling.
d. Tetraethyl lead, which belonged to Sparte I,
was, as far as I know, bought up by I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. before the war
and stored with the Ethyl G.m.b.H. 4
e. Aluminum was likewise sold to the Wehrmacht and stored up for
them.
3. Stockpiling based on stockpiling orders of the Army, the
Luftwaffe,
and the Navy
a.
Chlorine of lime and Losantin, which were intended for use in air-raid
protection as poison antidotes, were already ordered by the Army before the war
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¹ See Document
NI-6728, Prosecution Exhibit 750, reproduced in
part above in subsection 1 2.
² See Document NI-7564, Prosecution Exhibit 724. reproduced in part
above in subsection I 2.
³ See Document NI-8843, Prosecution Exhibit 749. reproduced in part
above in subsection I 2.
4 See Document
NI-4922, Prosecution Exhibit 732, reproduced in
part above in subsection I 2.
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