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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 Vorstand thought about these things. 
 
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3. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT TER MEER 
 
EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT TER MEER¹ 
 
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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