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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-4988
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 355
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MEMORANDUM OF A MEETING OF DEFENDANT AMBROS AND
OTHER OFFICIALS
OF FARBEN'S LUDWIGSHAFEN PLANT, 29
JANUARY 1940! CONCERNING THE
ESTABLISHMENT AND
PURPOSE OF THE "LURANIL" COMPANY FOR PROJECTS
UNDERTAKEN BY FARBEN FOR A THIRD PARTY |
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| SECRET |
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| 29 January 1940 Dr. H/P1 |
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Memorandum Concerning the First Discussion on Lurani1 on
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January 1940 at Ludwigshafen/Rhine |
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| Present: |
Managers: Dr. Ambros, Dr. Eymann, Senior
Engineer Santo
Prokuristen : Senior Engineer Mach,
Lederle, Ling, Dr. Heintzler
The newly appointed
Handlungsbevollmaechtigter: Zinser |
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Dr. Ambros opens the conference. At the outset, it is established
that the founding of Luranil has a dual purpose; on the one hand it must be
avoided, as regards certain projects built by the IG for another party, that
the IG, as such, should appear in public, especially at the construction site;
furthermore, it is intended through this foundation to make a clear distinction
between IG's own projects and those built by IG for outside firms — and,
by this method, to ascertain the exact and complete amount of the costs of IG's
outside projects. The IG wants no profit from building the Reich plants
involved; but there is danger that the IG would simply lose money on account of
the difficulties in computing the costs in building these plants, and this must
be avoided. Since Luranil will not be a completely independent organization
with its own personnel, administration, buildings, et cetera, but is rather to
carry out the projects assigned to it, mostly with IG personnel, the
difficulties of estimating costs are not lessened by this new foundation. If,
however, by the intercalation of Luranil, the outside projects of IG are marked
as such, the most serious source of danger in regard to incomplete computation
of costs is eliminated, namely ignorance of the numerous departments and people
involved owing to the fact that the project in question is one of the IG's
outside projects. Herr Lederle and Herr Zinser are to take all necessary steps
to carry out as complete a computation of costs as possible.
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following questions were discussed in detail: |
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