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Exhibit 721;¹ Document NI-4921,
Prosecution Exhibit 722;² Document NT-9548,
Prosecution Exhibit 683;³ Document NI-9638, Prosecution Exhibit 726 ;4 Document NI-9637, Prosecution Exhibit 728.5
The defendant testifies that the
importance of the report introduced by the prosecution as their Exhibit 725,
regarding the policy of the nickel trust, has been overemphasized, and that the
extremely valuable services rendered by IG in return, consisting of the supply
of technical experiences in this field to the nickel trust, have been
suppressed on purpose in this report.
It is furthermore stated that the
building up of a strategic nickel reserve corresponds to the measures taken in
all countries before the outbreak of the war, and that the German nickel
stockpiles, when compared with the normal consumption of nickel were quite
moderate. Haefliger furthermore testifies on the tremendous stockpiling of
nickel in Great Britain, a fact which did not prevent IG from putting at the
disposal of the Mond Nickel Company, London, up to the last days before the
outbreak of the war, their technical experiences in this field.
I am
offering in evidence, Document Haefliger 23, which Your Honors will find in
book 2, on page 1, and which will become Haefliger Defense Exhibit 17.6 This is an affidavit of Clemens Brendel, former
director in the Legal Department of the I.G. Farben plant, Ludwigshafen.
Attached to this affidavit is a copy of a report which the affiant and the
defendant made on 11 July 1946, at the request of the I.G. Farben Control
Office, on the agreement which existed between IG on the one side, and the Mond
Nickel Company, Ltd., London, and the International Nickel Company of Toronto,
Canada, on the other side. In this report the negotiations between these
companies are dealt with, as are the additional special stocks of nickel
supplied by the aforementioned companies to IG. It is stated that at the
outbreak of the war the available stocks of nickel in Germany, including those
special additional stocks, would not have sufficed for more than 5 months. It
is stated furthermore that IG had made available to the Mond Nickel Company and
the International Nickel Company, their valuable experiences relating to the
production and processing of nickel, even up to the last days before the
outbreak of the war. |
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¹ Not reproduced
herein.
² Reproduced in full in 2 above.
³ Ibid.
4 Not reproduced herein.
5 Not
reproduced herein.
6 The translation of this exhibit
amounts to 29 mimeographed pages. It is not reproduced herein. Similarly a
number of other affidavits introduced as Haefliger defense exhibits have not
been reproduced. However, the conclusions of Haefliger's defense counsel on
offering these documents indicate the general nature and the purpose for which
they were offered.
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