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mentioned, and which produced highly concentrated nitric acid;¹
also the Wolfen stand-by plant for diglycol and powder stabilizers ;² the
diglycol plant in the buna factory at Schkopau ;³ the stand-by plants in
Huels and Gendorf,4 which were under
construction at the outbreak of the war; and, finally, a few smaller ones which
could not really be called stand-by plants, where the military treasury added
certain supplementary plants to existing Farben plants to obtain an increase in
production, and where the equipment so provided remained the property of the
Reich. Those are all the cases I can think of at the moment.
Q. Did
Farben, in addition to deliveries from these stand-by plants, also deliver
products from its own plants — from Farben plants?
A. Yes. I
should like to remind you that General Morgan,5 who was here at the beginning of the trial, spoke
in considerable detail about the relationship between dyestuffs intermediates
and explosives production. Farben was a big dyestuffs producer in Germany and
therefore manufactured quite a number of intermediate products which, in the
case of war, might be delivered to an explosives factory and processed there
into explosives. That is true, for example, in the case of nitrotoluene.
Normally, a beautiful red dye is made of that, but when dyestuffs production
was limited during the war, the supplies of nitrotoluene were given to an
explosives factory which made TNT out of it. There are quite a number of
dyestuff intermediates which can be processed (most of them after additional
chemical processing) into ammunition in an explosives factory. There are the
powder stabilizers, which I have already mentioned, which again are made from
dyestuffs intermediates. They were made by my father's plant in Uerdingen
before the First World War, and the intermediates went either into dyestuffs
production or into this production. Powder stabil- [...lizers] |
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¹ Document NI-8189
Prosecution Exhibit 667, Affidavit by Dr. Ernst Struts, mentions the following
four plants: Piesteritz. Embsen, Langeishein, [in Central Germany], and
Doeberitz [near Berlin]. Not reproduced herein.
² The stand-by plant
in Wolfen for the production of diglycol and powder stabilizers is discussed in
the testimony of the defense witness. Dr. Emil Ehmann, pertinent parts of which
are reproduced in subsection K 5.
³ The High Command of the Army, in a
letter to Defendant Ambros, dated 25 June 1938, ordered the construction of a
stand-by plant in the buna factory at Farben's Schkopau plant. The order
directed that the stand-by plant was to produce both diglycol and ethylene.
This letter, Document NI-7427 Prosecution Exhibit 216, is not reproduced
herein.
4 The stand-by plants in Huels
and Gendorf produced mustard gas (Lost). Document NI-9619, Prosecution Exhibit
688, an affidavit of Dr. Herbert Mureck, Chief of the Procurement Office for
Chemical Raw Materials in the Military Economics Office (Wehrwirtschaftsamt) of
the OKW, contains a list of Farben's stand-by plants which were built or
planned before the outbreak of hostilities in 1939. Not reproduced herein. Dr.
Mureck testified as a prosecution witness on 29 October 1947. tr. pp.
8010-8041.
5 Brigadier General John H.
Morgan. K.C., testified as a prosecution witness on 11 September 1947 tr. pp.
727-760. General Morgan was Deputy Adjutant General of the British Army and
British Military Representative on the Inter-allied Council of the Control
Commission for the Disarmament of Germany after the First World War.
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