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A. The name shows it. It is to make powder stable; to protect it from
disintegration when it is stored for a long time, or under high temperatures.
Q. Was the stabilizer plant which was built at Wolfen also built by
order of the Army Ordnance Office?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you tell us,
Witness, when the Army Ordnance Office issued the order for the building of
this plant?
A. In the spring of 1936.
Q. And when was the plant
finished and put into operation?
A. After the beginning of the war.
Q. After the beginning of the war?
A. Yes.
Q. Is the
same thing true of this plant, as regards ownership conditions, as for the
diglycol plant?
A. Yes, it was a Reich-owned plant.
Q. It was
also operated by Farben?
A. Yes.
Q. The product, stabilizers,
occurs in another plant of the Works Combine of Central Germany. A plant for
aniline and preliminary products for stabilizers was to be built there. Do you
know anything about that?
A. Yes, that was the Reich-owned plant at
Doeberitz. A plant was built at Doeberitz for the production of aniline and
diphenylamine, which is a preliminary product for stabilizers.
Q. Did
this plant go into operation?
A. No.
Q. Another product,
phosgene. Was phosgene produced at Wolfen near Bitterfeld?
A. Yes.
Q. And was there an order from the Army Ordnance Office to that effect?
A. Yes.
Q. Why did the Army Ordnance Office need phosgene,
Witness?
A. You just mentioned the powder stabilizer plant owned by the
Reich at Wolfen. For the production of powder stabilizers phosgene is needed.
This plant was built as part of this stabilizer plant.
Q. Witness, do
you know whether phosgene was produced for other purposes at Wolfen?
A.
Yes, for the filling of bombs for the Luftwaffe.
Q. Was a plant built
for that purpose?
A. A filling shop was needed, which was set up on
land belonging to the Reich plant after the beginning of the war.
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