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A. No, I didn't; I don't remember that anyhow.

Q. I show you Document NI-13545, which we offer in evidence as Prosecution Exhibit 1951.¹ It's a letter from you to Professor Selck, September 1934. By the way, who was Professor Selck?

A. Professor Selck was a Vorstand colleague in Frankfurt on the Main. I wrote in a letter to him that I couldn't give any information, and advised the raw material commissariat to call on Mr. Merbeck, who was a member of the Gestapo, and, therefore, obligated to give information to government agencies. Whether that was actually the case, I don't know. 
 
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f. Testimony of Defendant Oster 
 
[Statement from the judgment concerning personal history, positions, and affiliations of defendant Heinrich Oster:

“OSTER, Heinrich: Born 9 May 1878, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Doctor of philosophy (chemistry). 1929-1931 deputy member of Vorstand; 1931-1945 full member of Vorstand; 1929-1938 member of Working Committee; 1937-1945 member of Commercial Committee; 1930-1945 manager of Nitrogen Syndicate; member of East Asia Committee and chief of Farben's sales organization for nitrogen and oil; member of several control groups in Germany, Austria, Norway, and Yugoslavia.

“Member of Nazi Party; supporting member of 55 Reitersturm (mounted unit) ; member of Germany Labor Front; chief or member of various sections of official or quasi-official bodies. During World War I received the Iron Cross and several State decorations. During World War II received the war Service Cross.”]  
 
EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT OSTER²
 
CROSS-EXAMINATION 
 
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MR. SPRECHER: Do you recall being present at a Commercial Committee meeting in May of 1939 when the Commercial Committee decided that no foreigners were to be employed at the central agencies of IG?

DEFENDANT OSTER: Well, if I am mentioned in the list among those present, then I was certainly present.

Q. In that connection, we will introduce Document NI-6084, as Prosecution Exhibit 2111 3 so as to bring into the record item 6 which is headed “Employment of Foreigners by the IG.” I will see that you have a copy over the recess. I have no further questions about that.  
 
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¹ Reproduced above in subsection L 2.
² Complete testimony is recorded in the mimeographed transcript 5, 7 April 1948. pp. 10665-10729.
³ Reproduced in part above in subsection I 2.  

 



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