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Q. Did you participate in the air defense “map games” [Planspiele], which were incorrectly termed “war games” by the prosecution?

A. Not I myself. I sent Dr. Struss to two such map games. One was in Ludwigshafen, the other one in Leuna, I believe. I think Dr. Struss testified about this. These map games were also ordered by the authorities and, in the fourth pamphlet of the Reich Association of German Industry, these exercises were described in detail and their execution was recommended to the individual plants.

Q. Did you ever participate in any such exercises as spectator or actively?

A. No, I didn't think it worthwhile to go there.

Q. The prosecution also spoke about map reading exercises [Kartenlesespiele] in their presentation of evidence. Can you tell me anything about that?

A. I heard this expression for the first time from the prosecution. I didn't know it myself. I presume it is something similar.  
 
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K. Special or Stand-by Plants Sponsored by the Government
or theGerman Armed Forces and Constructed
and Operated by Farben 
 
I. INTRODUCTION 
 
 
A number of special or standby plants were constructed and operated by Farben in order to produce larger quantities of war-important materials or materials, such as poison gas, which were solely of use to the Armed Forces. Most of these plants were owned or sponsored in whole or in part by special organizations established by the German Government or the German Army. During the earlier years of the Nazi regime, special plants of the "WIFO," a specially formed company (a G.m.b.H.), were relatively more important, but later on the standby plants of the "Montan" corporation (an A.G.) were more important. The evidence on the purpose, construction, and operation of these plants was both extensive and complicated, and the contemporaneous documents, taken alone, are most difficult to understand. For this reason, and because of space limitations, relatively few contemporaneous documents have been reproduced in this subsection. The first materials reproduced are an affidavit and several selections from the testimony.

The materials in this subsection are arranged as follows: an affidavit and related testimony of Prosecution Witness Diekmann

 



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