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d. Testimony of Defendant Buergin 
 
EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT BUERGIN¹
 
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 on Central Germany's soft coal. 
 
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e. Testimony of Defendant Buetefisch 
 
EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT BUETEFISCH³ 
 
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
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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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