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interruption did occur when the war broke out, but I noticed that
only at a late date in the war.
Q. Very well. But the DAG had certain
military enterprises that they had constructed before the war with Reich funds.
That is correct, isn't it?
A. Yes.
Q. Were these ever discussed
in the TEA?
A. Never.
Q. Oh, never. Did you know anything about
these military enterprises at all?
A. I only learned about them during
the war, and that only in part. An exact knowledge of affairs I gained only
during the last months after I was able to look into the official records in
the Control Office.
Q. Then you knew nothing about the military
enterprises of the DAG, and only learned of them during the war?
A.
Yes, only during the war.
Q. Under II of your affidavit, Prosecution
Exhibit 325, you mention intermediate products for explosives. You mention
synthetic toluene and the plant in Waldenburg. May I ask you, first of all,
when was Waldenburg constructed?
A. The time when Waldenburg was
constructed you can also find in this long affidavit. It must have been around
1940 or 1941.
Q. It was in 1942?
A. Yes.
Q. Synthetic
toluene was produced there. May I ask you who originated the process according
to which this toluene was produced?
A. I also dealt with that subject
in this long affidavit. It was a process of the Linke-Hoffmann-Huette which was
not worked out by Farben.
Q. That was not a Farben process?
A.
No.
Q. In the last paragraph, Roman III of the affidavit, you state
that according to your estimate, Farben and its branches, DAG and WASAG
produced 84 percent of German explosives and 70 percent of Germany's gunpowder.
Didn't you get this fact from the consideration that the Dynamit A.G. and the
WASAG were counted as enterprises of Farben?
A. Yes. That was the
reason, and Mr. Ritchin told me to include these in this compilation in the
summer of 1945.
Q. Did the IG plants proper produce finished
explosives?
A. No, only dinitro-benzene, which was produced in a
comparatively small amount by Farben, could be called a finished explosive.
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