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[re…] serve to an amount approximately equal to 20 million dollars at market value. The German Government asked IG if it were not possible on the basis of its friendly relations with Standard Oil, to buy this amount in Farben's name actually, however, as trustee of the German Government.

The fact that we actually succeeded by means of the most difficult negotiations in buying the quantity desired by our government from the American Standard Oil Company and the Dutch-English Royal-Dutch-Shell Group and in transporting it to Germany, was made possible only through the aid of the Standard Oil Co.¹


[In handwriting]

Distributed to: 
  Geheimrat Dr. Schmitz
Dir. Dr. Ambros
Dir. Dr. Buetefisch
Dir. Dr. Mueller-Cunradi
Dir. Dr. Schneider
Dir. Dr. Pier
Dir. Dr. Goldberg
Dr. Diekmann  
 
 
3. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANTS KRAUCH, VON KNIERIEM, BUETEFISCH, TER MEER, GAJEWSKI, AND OSTER  
 
a. Testimony of Defendant Krauch 
 
EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT KRAUCH² 
 
DIRECT EXAMINATION  
 
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DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch) : Very well. And now, to conclude our examples, a few words about the international connections of IG. Farben, without consideration of any intention of a war of aggression.

DEFENDANT KRAUCH: The international exchange of experiences of I.G. Farben was continued during these years, as had been the case previously, according to the contracts. I recall a visit which Mr. Howard, one of the important men of Standard Oil, paid me about the end of 1938. He asked me whether there were any objections by the government to having this exchange of knowledge
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¹ Evidence concerning this purchase of gasoline and oil product, is reproduced above in subsection I “Stockpiling, Storage of Materials and Dispersal of Production.”
² Further extracts from the testimony of Defendant Krauch are reproduced above in subsections C 5a, P 3, G 7a, H 4e. and J I 7a, and below in subsection N 5b
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