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| industry were not able to meet the increasing rearmament
requirements. 8. As I remember, WIFO had only shadow factories producing raw
materials or preliminary products for immediate Wehrmacht requirements, such as
concentrated nitric acid and toluene for powder and explosives works. Wehrmacht
goods themselves, such as explosives, were produced in shadow factories which
did not belong to WIFO but to other Reich-owned companies (such as Montan
G.m.b.H.), which were subordinated to the Ordnance Office.¹ Sparte I of
Farben had little or nothing to do with the shadow factories or stand-by plants
of Montan G.m.b.H.; for example, in the fields of diglycol, stabilizers,
pentaerythrite as well as powder, explosives, and poison gas, since these
products did not belong to the sphere of Sparte I — which included
nitrogen, methanol, gasoline, et cetera — but belonged to other Sparten of
Farben. |
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| 12. I have carefully read each of the six (6) pages of this affidavit
and signed them. I have made all necessary corrections in my own handwriting
and initialed them. I herewith declare under oath that I have stated the full
truth to the best of my knowledge and belief. |
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| [Signed] DR. HEINRICH DIEKMANN |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION
WITNESS DR. HEINRICH
DIEKMANN² |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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DR. HELLMUTH DIX (counsel for defendant Schneider) In this affidavit
with which we are now dealing,³ you make statements regarding so-called
stand-by or “shadow” factories, which were the property of the WIFO,
and for which WIFO made contracts with the IG for renting or managing. In that
connection, let me ask you, is it not true that other firms also entered into
similar contracts with the WIFO?
WITNESS DIERMANN: Yes, certainly.
Q. Could you please name some?
A. When building stand-by
plants, the WIFO selected the firms which seemed to them to be best acquainted
with that type of production and would be best fitted to build such plants.
They some- […times] |
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¹ The operation of
Reich-owned companies producing explosives by Farben's subsidiary, DAG, is one
of the topics considered in subsection M, below “Farben, Dynamit AG.
(DAG), and the Production of Explosives.”
² Complete testimony is
recorded in the mimeographed transcript. 15 and 16 October 1947, pp. 2196-2283.
³ Document NI-10540, Prosecution Exhibit
669. reproduced immediately above,
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