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  3. Debits with banks
 
   
  None      
       
  4. IG Clearing account      
 
Our credit against which the deliveries since July ist are still to be balanced 
 47,711,000  
       
  5. Account of the G.m.b.H. zur Verwertung chemischer Erzeugnisse - the G.m.b.H. has a credit of   68,838,000  
       
  6. Outstanding debts in business with the Armed Forces     
       
  At the DAG    56,548,000  
  At the G.m.b.H     124,619,000  
 
With the German Salute

Dynamit-Aktien-Gesellschaft
vormals Alfred Nobel & Co 
 
 
5. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI  
 
EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI¹
 
DIRECT EXAMINATION 
 
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DR. WEYER (associate counsel for defendant Gajewski) : In connection with the powder part of the work in Rottweil,² which we have already described, I now come to the relationship between I.G. Farben and Dynamit-Nobel (DAG). You said that the powder production in Rottweil was not directed by Farben or your Sparte but by the DAG. What was the relationship of these two firms to each other?

DEFENDANT GAJEWSKI: Farben owned a considerable share of the capital of the DAG. I cannot give you the exact percentage at the moment. Furthermore, there was a contract for the community of interest between the two companies.

Q. Can you briefly give us the important parts of the contents of this contract, very briefly?

A. According to this contract for the community of interests,³ the DAG was to give the net profit to Farben. On the other hand, Farben guaranteed a dividend to the DAG which was to be in a definite relationship to the dividend which was given by
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¹ Further extracts are reproduced above in subsections V C3, VII C5d, and I 3e.
² A subsidiary firm of Farben.
³ The community-of-interests agreement is not reproduced herein. However, for a contemporaneous description of the agreement, see the extracts from the "Handbook of German Joint Corporations," Document NI-7221, Prosecution Exhibit 223, reproduced in subsection M 4.

 



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