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consumer of these products for future years, increased amortization
rates were approved in isolated cases.
Q. Do I understand you correctly
if I say that such increased amortization rates were approved when they had an
economically justifiable reason?
A. Yes, if we could not expect the
firm to take the financial risk.
Q. A final product, Witness: picric
acid. Did the plant at Bitterfeld-Wolfen supply picric acid to the Wehrmacht?
A. As far as I know, there was a small plant for the production of
picric acid for industrial purposes at Wolfen. But these quantities were of no
interest to the Wehrmacht, so that the plant at Wolfen certainly did not supply
picric acid in any large quantities for the Wehrmacht. Picric acid is a highly
explosive substance and, for this reason, the Wehrmacht had no interest in
having a big plant in a normal, privately owned chemical factory. All the
picric acid plants were owned by the Wehrmacht.
Q. If I understand you
correctly, as far as Bitterfeld-Wolfen is concerned, there was only a small
occasional delivery of picric acid?
A. I would assume so, for I recall
that in 1935 the only picric acid factory which we had in Germany blew up at
Rheinsdorf, and the firm had to deliver the product as raw picric acid, not as
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT AMBROS¹
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DR. HOFFMANN (counsel for defendants Ambros and von der Heyde) : Was
the Gendorf plant a kind of Reich-owned chemical plant, or was it not such a
plant?
DEFENDANT AMBROS: The Gendorf plant was a Reich-owned plant. The
owner was the Reich, that is OKH, which used the Montangesellschaft as a
holding company for directing such enterprises. The man in charge of this
Montangesellschaft, who constructed all armament plants and who gave the
initiative for such construction, was the prosecution witness,
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__________ ¹ Complete testimony
is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 26, 27, 28 February; 1 March 1948. pp.
7751-7920; 7964-8145. ² Dr. Zeidelhack gave several affidavits to the
prosecution and his testimony consists principally of cross-examination by the
defense concerning these affidavits.
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