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[imple…] ments, were manufactured at the order of the Army in
the Wolfen dyestuffs factory and stored in the Army depots. This production was
in progress before the war.
i. Red phosphorus was manufactured
in the Bitterfeld works and delivered to the explosives firms in the form of a
phosphorus-paraffin mixture used for the bottom smoke filler of shells; and
these firms, on their part, stockpiled it to a certain extent, in addition to
the current production in this article.
j. It was not until 1942
that I knew about the storing of yellow phosphorus. The stockpiling, so far as
I knew, began in the Wehrmacht warehouse and was later carried out in
Dyhernfurth itself, but the business side of it was always carried out in
Frankfurt.
k. Chloroacetophenone (Omegasalz) was delivered to
the Army from 1936 to 1942 and stored by them in munition depots.
l. Adamsite (azine) was manufactured from 1939 to the end of 1944 in
Uerdingen, delivered to the Army and stored by them.
m. Phosgene
was manufactured on the order of the Luftwaffe in the Wolfen Z-plant in
considerable quantities from about 1940 and was stored by the Luftwaffe in
Muenster in the Lueneburger Heide on their own lands.
n. Oxol
mustard gas was manufactured by the firms of Lonal and Orgacid G.m.b.H. from
about 1937. It was stored by the Army and partly also by the Luftwaffe.
o. C6 salt (nitrogen-mustard gas-hydrochloride) was manufactured
in Ludwigshafen from about 1939 and delivered to the Army either for storage or
for further processing.
I have carefully read through each of the seven
(7) pages of this affidavit and signed it with my own hand, have made the
necessary corrections in my own handwriting and countersigned them with my
initials, and I hereby declare under oath that I have told the absolute truth
in this declaration to the best of my knowledge and belief. |
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| [Signed] DR. HANS WAGNER |
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4. AFFIDAVIT AND TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS
STRUSS ON
DISPERSAL OF PRODUCTION |
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COPY
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DOCUMENT NI-8320
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 235 |
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| AFFIDAVIT OF DR ERNST A. STRUSS, 29 MAY 1947 |
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| I, Dr. Ernst Struss, Director of I.G. Farben, Chief of TEA Bureau of
IG, secretary of the Technical Committee of the Vors- […tand] |
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