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[espe
] cially dinitrotoluene, were produced in four Farben
plants, and then turned over to the explosives plants for finishing.
Q.
And when did you know that?
A. This probably happened already before
the war, in small amounts, but large amounts, as far as I know, were only
produced after the war with France was finished.
Q. And was it known by
the members of the Technical Committee that after the war began certain credits
or certain finances by which DAG was conducting its business were not passing
through the Technical Committee? Did you people in the Technical Committee know
that?
A. I was probably very sure that secret credits which the DAG had
were not submitted to us, but I cannot say whether the other members of the
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT TER
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DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BERNDT (counsel for the defendant ter Meer) In this affidavit
[ter Meer Document 65, ter Meer Defense Exhibit 36]² Dr. Struss states
that the yearly DAG reports were sent to Farben, but that Dr. Struss never
submitted these reports to Dr. ter Meer; and in the last paragraph Dr. Struss
states that turnover figures for the DAG were submitted to Dr. ter Meer on the
occasion when he turned over the figures for Farben, and that he received them
every 3 months from the Central Bookkeeping Administration. Would you please
state your opinion of the relationship between the DAG and Farben?
DEFENDANT TER MEER: During earlier examinations and submission of
documents, it was already proven that the majority of the stock shares of the
DAG was in possession of Farben, and that there was a contract of community of
interests concluded in 1926, I believe, between the two enterprises.³
Quite apart therefrom, however, the relationship between Farben and Dynamit
Nobel was one of complete technical independence. It is true that Dr. Paul
Mueller was a member, or a guest, in the Technical Com- [
ittee]
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__________ ¹ Further extracts are
reproduced above in subsections C 5b, E 3. G 3, H 4b, I
7c, J 4, K 3g, L 3d below in subsection O 7a and in
subsections VIII C 6, D 8, D 6, E 4. and IX F 2 in volume VIII, this series.
² Reproduced in subsection M 2b. ³ See extract from
"Handbook of German Joint Stock Corporations,'' Document NI-7221, Prosecution
Exhibit 323, reproduced below in subsection M 4.
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