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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS DR. GUENTHER
GORR¹ |
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CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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DR. VON ROSPATT (associate counsel for defendant Krauch): On page 6
of the original [Doc. NI-7611, Pros. Ex.
141]² under "h", you say that by instigation of the authorities, so-called
map games [Planspiele] in the various plants were carried out. What authorities
instigated the carrying out of these map games?
WITNESS GORR: I can't
answer this question precisely but I assume that the directives, in the final
analysis, were issued also by the OKW and by the Reich Ministry of Economics.
Q. The mobilization plans, the map games, and air-raid precautionary
measures were not instituted voluntarily by Farben but by request of the
authorities?
A. As far as I know from my own experience, these map
games did not originate from the initiative of Farben, but I must add that I
consider it possible that one of my former colleagues, Dr. Ritter;³ who
was very much interested from an academic viewpoint in these questions,
organized quite a few which were not ordered by the Army. If this assumption of
mine is correct, this appears to me to be not an active interest of the people
in charge of Farben, but rather an intervention of a particular expert in
Farben. |
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4. Testimony of Defendant ter Meer |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT TER MEER4 |
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DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BORNEMANN (counsel for defendant ter Meer) Dr. ter Meer's
further examination will cover the field which has been presented by the
prosecution under the heading of mobilization planning: the question of
air-raid protection, secrecy measures, and plans of mobilization. I begin with
the field of air defense. Dr. ter Meer, the prosecution charges Farben, and
also you, to the effect that Farben, on their own, had initiated air-raid
protection measures. Does this assertion correspond to the truth? |
__________ ¹ Complete testimony
is recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 24 October 1947, pp. 2680-2706.
² Extracts from Document NI-7611 are
reproduced immediately above. ³ Dr. Ritter was an official in Farben's
Vermittlungsstelle W and later became an official of the Krauch Office.
4 Further extracts from the testimony of
the defendant ter Meer are reproduced above in subsection VII C 5b, E 8.
G 8. H 4b, I 7c, below in subsections K 3a, L 3d. M 3. O
7a, and in subsections VIII C 6, D 3, D 6, E 4, and IX F 2 in volume
VIII, this series.
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