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| going to make in September or October, and everything was already
foreseen for that. Dr. von Knieriem was informed; Dr. Ambros and Dr.
Mueller-Cunradi were both informed to reserve a certain number of weeks for
going to the United States in order to talk business at once, and all this, of
course, had to be given up. That was a very great
disappointment. |
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MR. SPRECHER: Now, yesterday we were last talking about the
employment of foreigners under the regulations from 1935 on. I have one last
question in connection with secrecy at this time. Our Exhibit 143, Document
2276 PS, document book 6, page 45 English, is a
statement by Dr. Ley,1 the leader of the German Labor Front as well as the
Reich Organization leader for all of the Party organizations. In preparation
for my question I would like to read you the first sentence to that statement.
“During the years from 1933 to 1939, everything necessary has been done in
secrecy that seemed necessary to the conservation of the nation in the
anticipated clash with an envious surrounding world.” Now, when you
yourself observed the constantly intensified secrecy surrounding so many of the
projects of IG and the DAG before 1939, did you consider that most of the
projects were sufficiently related to military matters so that from a military
point of view it really was appropriate to keep these matters and these
projects secret?
DEFENDANT TER MEER: As far as these projects were of a
military nature, it seems to me to be natural that they were subject to
secrecy. Quite generally I wish to say that these secrecy measures seem to be
somewhat exaggerated, and they probably seemed to us exaggerated at the
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| MR. DUBOIS: Let me show you, Dr. ter Meer, an exhibit which the
prosecution has already put in Document NI-10447,
Prosecution Exhibit 955. 2 It is in book 42, page 132 of the English, 118 of
the German. That is this memorandum which has been mentioned here before from
Buetefisch, a file memorandum by Buetefisch concerning oil. Now, I ask you to
look at the second and third paragraphs of that letter, and I ask you to tell
me whether or not the description of the way in which Buetefisch said Farben
handled the exchange |
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¹ Document 2276 PS is
reproduced in full above in subsection L 2.
² Reproduced above in
subsection L 2.
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