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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-4016
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM THE VON HEYDEN FIRM TO THE REICH MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS,
ID OCTOBER 1938, CONCERNING THE CONFLICTING CLAIMS OF VON HEYDEN AND FARBEN TO
THE PLANTS OF THE AUSSIGER VEREIN IN THE SUDETENLAND |
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CHEMISCHE FABRIK VON HEYDEN
Aktiengesellschaft
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| Directorate |
Radebeul-Dresden
10 October 1938 |
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To the Reich Ministry of Economics
for the attention of
Ministerialdirigent Dr. Michel |
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| Berlin |
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Subject: Association for Chemical and Metallurgical Production:
[Verein fuer Chemische und Metallurgische Produktion]
(Prager Verein) Aussig |
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On 6 October the undersigned had an opportunity to present
personally the urgent desires of our firm concerning the Aussiger Verein. We
should like to express our most sincere gratitude for this and in addition,
request the Reich Ministry of Economics in writing to use its influence to have
the Czech interests in the Aussiger Verein, in as far as they concern factories
located in the Sudetenland, transferred to us, particularly those in Aussig and
Falkenau (and, possibly, Neu-Oderberg also).
In future, the Aussig
plants will directly overlap the geographical boundaries of our sales area;
they will be obliged (owing to the loss of part of their present home markets
and decrease of export trade) to sell a considerable part of their products in
Saxony and eastern Germany. Thus they threaten the existence of our firm and
its staff, unless a way can be found to combine their management with ours.
Since I.G. Farbenindustrie is primarily trying to obtain these
interests we feel compelled to state that the purchase by IG would, above
all else, mean catastrophe for our enterprise. Our firm is one of the few
large works with extensive production schedules which is still completely
independent of I.G. Farbenindustrie. We are constantly engaged in sharp
competition with IG. The latter already controls the whole of western and
southern Germany, dominates Central Germany, and from there is encroaching
further and further on our natural markets in eastern Germany. IG is using
every means to increase its sales there, too, and to make its customers
permanently dependent upon it, a fact |
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