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Q. The next affidavit is Document NI-10030, Prosecution Exhibit 48.*
It is in document book 2. It is one of these large charts that I don't have to
deal with any further, but I should like to ask you briefly, before the war
broke out, did you know of the plants of the Verwertchemie?
A. No, not
a single plant.
Q. To whom did these plants of Verwertchemie belong?
A. I only learned that during the course of this summer, when studying
the files of the Dynamit A.G. and the Verwertchemie, that these were plants
which were constructed at Reich expense and which were operated by the Dynamit
A.G.
Q. Were these plants ever discussed in the TEA?
A. Never,
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MR. SPRECHER: Dr. Struss, is it true that both the IG and DAG had
special technical relations with a number of plants which were built with Reich
funds. Is that correct?
WITNESS STRUSS: Yes. I understand that to mean
that about thirty plants of the Verwertchemie were under the technical
direction of Dynamit A.G.
Q. And when were most of these plants built?
A. Most of these plants were built after the war began.
Q. Now,
did you know that some such plants were being operated, from a technical point
of view, by DAG? At the time, I mean.
A. I did not know these plants. I
have heard names of about four or five of these 30 plants only at a late date
in the war.
Q. My point is, did you know that DAG was running such
plants, whether or not you knew the names of the plants or how many there were
or who was in charge of them?
A. I was able to draw such a conclusion
from the fact that Dr. Mueller requested chemists from us for the operation of
new plants.
Q. Did some problems come up about some of the intermediate
products that would have to be sent to some of these plants?
A. I did
not exactly understand the question.
Q. I say, did some technical
problems come up because of the necessity of transferring raw materials or
intermediate products to those plants? From IG plants, that is to say.
A. I am not sure what you mean by this. Intermediate products for
trinitrotoluene were made in four plants of Farben. Trinitrotoluene is an
explosive, and the intermediate products, espe- […cially] |
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