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international cartel arrangements, the indictment stated: “After
the Nazi government came into power, Farben used the international cartel as an
economic weapon in the preparation for aggressive war through trade
penetration, political propaganda, collection of strategic information about
foreign industries, and weakening other countries by crippling production and
stifling scientific research” (par. 51).
The evidence on secrecy,
research, and dealings with foreign countries concerning cartels, patents,
licenses, and the exchange of technical experience and know-how was very
extensive and much of it was highly complicated. The selections reproduced
below are for the most part only illustrative of the framework of these issues
and of the facts which were developed in connection with these charges. On the
other hand, some of the evidence relating to these charges has been reproduced
in earlier subsections, a circumstance which is partly noted in some of the
footnotes to the text of the present section. Several hundreds of the documents
introduced in evidence were marked “Secret” or “Secret Reich
Matter,” and most of these bore a stamp noting that they were state
secrets within the meaning of the Reich Penal Code. The defendants in
testifying about some of the statements in contemporaneous documents often
claimed that these declarations were written with a view to protecting
themselves from the watchful eye of the authorities and consequently that many
written statements could not be taken at their face value.
The
materials reproduced in the present subsection have been arranged as follows:
contemporaneous documents (2 below), followed by extracts from the testimony of
six of the defendants, Krauch, von Knieriem, Buetefisch, ter Meer, Gajewski,
and Oster (3 below). |
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| 2. CONTEMPORANEOUS DOCUMENTS |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT 2276-PS
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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STATEMENT BY DR. ROBERT LEY, LEADER OF THE
GERMAN LABOR FRONT, 1943, CONCERNING
SECRECY AND ARMAMENT |
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| From 1933 to 19,39 everything necessary had been done in secrecy [in
aller Stille] that seemed essential for the conservation |
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In addition to being leader of the German Labor Front (DAF), Dr. Ley was Chief
of the NSDAP Party Organization (Reichsorganizationaleiter). He committed
suicide after being indicted in the ease before the IMT. This statement is
taken from p. 55 of "Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront; Wesen-Ziel-Wege." issued by the
scientific Labor Institute of the German Labor Front, published by the
publishing house of the German Labor Front in
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