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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION
WITNESS DR. ERNST
STRUSS¹ |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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DR. BERNDT (counsel for defendant ter Meer) Dr. Struss, I now come to
Document NI-8320, Prosecution Exhibit 235. In
this affidavit you state that new constructions by Farben could no longer be
carried out in a certain border district, but had to take place in Central
Germany; and, as a reason for this, you state the fact that the Belgian and
French guns could cover an area of about 120 or 130 kilometers in Germany along
the frontier; that was in 1935. Don't you believe that from that fact one might
conclude that a defensive war was expected at that time?
WITNESS
STRUSS: That is the conclusion which I personally drew from that
fact. |
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5. TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS ELIAS
CONCERNING TETRAETHYL
LEAD |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION
WITNESS NATHANIEL
ELIAS² |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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MR. DUBOIS: Now at the last session of the Tribunal an exhibit was
offered as Document NI-4922, Prosecution Exhibit
732,³ in book 39, where reference was made to a transaction between Farben
and the Ethyl Lead Export Corporation, by which Farben borrowed 500 tons of
tetraethyl lead in 1938, for which they later forfeited one million dollars.
Approximately how many gallons of high octane gasoline could be produced by
adding this material to ordinary gasoline?
WITNESS ELIAS: Well,
figuring roughly 300 gallons to the ton, it should be between 15 million and 30
million gallons of high octane gasoline, or in that neighborhood. |
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¹ The complete
testimony of Dr. Struss as a prosecution witness is recorded in the
mimeographed transcript. 9 October and 20 and 21 November 1947, pp. 1849-1927;
4065-4160. He later testified as a defense witness and his testimony is
recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 13 April and 6 May 1948. pp.
11294-11338; and 13566-13619. A further extract is reproduced below in
subsection M 2c.
² Mr. Elias, an American consulting chemist, was an
expert witness of the prosecution. He testified on 30 September and 1 October
1947, mimeographed transcript pp. 1342-1462. He was cross-examined by the
defendants Buetefisch, Ambros, and ter Meer, as well a by several of the
defense counsel.
³ Reproduced in part in 2 above.
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