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d. Testimony of Defendant Buergin |
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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT BUERGIN¹ |
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DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. SCHUBERT (counsel for defendant Buergin) : In Document
NI-8320, Prosecution Exhibit 235,2 the witness
Struss says that the construction sites in Aken and Stassfurt that is,
in Central Germany had been chosen by the Luftwaffe so that the
magnesium plants might be as far distant from the German border as was
possible. Can you say anything about this?
DEFENDANT BUERGIN: The
construction of these plants in Stassfurt and Aken has, in my opinion, nothing
to do with the decentralization of factories from the West to Central Germany.
These production plants had to be constructed where the raw materials are
found, for reasons of transportation. Besides that, the proximity of a cheap
source of electric power is of decisive importance. Both prerequisites were
present in the case of Aken and Stassfurt. The raw material magnesium chloride
is to be found only in Central Germany, and good dolomite was quarried in the
Harz Mountains. Added to that, was the favorable electric power position based
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e. Testimony of Defendant Buetefisch |
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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT
BUETEFISCH³ |
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DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. FLAECHSNER (counsel for defendant Buetefisch) : I have to ask
you, Dr. Buetefisch, were you concerned with the purchase of large amounts of
gasoline and tetraethyl lead? This purchase has been mentioned in various
documents of the prosecution: Document NI-4690,
Prosecution Exhibit 731,4 in document book 39
and on page 79; Document NI-4922, Prosecution
Exhibit 732, 5 also in document book 39 of
the Prosecution, on page 93; and Document NI-4831, Prosecution Exhibit 733,
6 in document book |
__________ ¹ Further extracts are
reproduced above in subsection H 4e. and in section IX F 6, volume VIII. this
series. ² Reproduced above in subsection I 4. ³ Further
extracts from the testimony of the defendant Buetefisch are reproduced above in
subsection C 2, and below in subsection L S and in section IX F 7. volume VIII,
this series. 4 Reproduced in part in 6
above. 5 Reproduced in part in 2 above.
6 Not reproduced herein.
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