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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
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I. INTRODUCTION |
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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
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