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around to all present.¹ After this a discussion of the situation
takes place and of the measures to be taken, in particular with respect to the
Aussiger Verein.²
Agents for Hungary and Czechoslovakia will be
decided upon later. |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-3721
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM DEFENDANT KUEHNE TO DEFENDANTS VON SCHNITZLER AND TER
MEER, 23 SEPTEMBER 1938, CONCERNING FARBEN'S INTEREST IN THE AUSSIG PLANT OF
THE PRAGER VEREIN |
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Dr. H. Kuehne
Member of the Vorstand |
Leverkusen — IG Work,
23 September 1938 |
| I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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To Director Dr. ter Meer,
Director Dr. von
Schnitzler |
Frankfurt on the Main |
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Dear Sirs,
I learned from our telephone conversation this
morning the pleasant news that you have succeeded in making the competent
authorities appreciate our interest in Aussig and that you have already
suggested commissars to the authorities — namely, Dr. Wurster and Kugler.
I made a note of the fact that you were unable to discuss this operation with
me in advance. I am in agreement with your choice of these gentlemen. I assume
as a matter of course that the two gentlemen whom you nominated as commissars
will maintain the closest contact with the commission appointed by us for the
Aussig affairs. As you know, we have a series of agreements in both the sales
and manufacturing spheres; I may remind you, for instance, of the agreements
made in the spheres of titanium white and active charcoal,
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With kindest regards
Yours,
[Signed] KUEHNE |
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¹ The minutes of the
“Conference on Czechoslovakia,” on 17 May 1938. Document NI-6221,
Prosecution Exhibit 833. was one of the leading documents upon which the
prosecution relied in attempting to establish knowledge of aggressive intent.
It is reproduced, together with related testimony, in the following major
subsection, “O. Knowledge of Aggressive Intent,”
² The
“Aussiger Verein” was a common name for the Plants of the
“Prager Verein,” a Czech company, which were located in the so-called
“Sudetenland” of Czechoslovakia. “Prager Verein,” which
appears later in the documents and testimony, was the abbreviated name for
“Verein fuer Chemische und Metallurgische Produktion,” a company with
headquarters in Prague.
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