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| 54th Meeting of the Commercial Committee, 14 April
1943 |
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| [The minutes show the following defendants as being present: von
Schnitzier, Haefliger, Ilgner, Maim, Oster, and Kugler] |
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5. Southeastern Europe
a. Relationship with Prager Verein
Those questions which have remained open in the relationship
between IG Pressburg and the Prager Verein, especially the formulation of
agreements according to regions on the basis of the Frankfurt agreement of 3
July 1942, were discussed at the Prague conference of 22 February 1943, and
settled. The records of the meeting have been distributed in the meantime.
Following the meeting of 22 February 1943 there was an exchange of
correspondence between Generaldirektor Dr. Paul Mueller and Dr. von Schnitzler
dealing with the question of whether and to what extent the field of explosives
is comprised in the agreements made between IG Pressburg and the Prager Verein,
or whether this too seems to require special handling. In a letter addressed
directly to Dr. von Schnitzler, Dr. Mueller expresses himself in agreement with
the contents of the letter he received, dated 31 March of this year, and the
attitude expressed therein will be approved at today's meeting of the
Commercial Committee. According to this, the state of the affair as a whole is
to be judged as follows: namely, that the field of explosives was not discussed
during previous negotiations with the Prager Verein, since any activity of the
Verein in the explosives field has always been considered out of the question,
and no aims of the Verein to undertake any activity in the explosives field
were ever recognizable. As, in addition to this, Dr. Srba, at the Prague
meeting on 22 February 1943, when there was a brief mention of explosives,
declared that the Verein had no intentions whatsoever regarding manufacture in
this field, and that, moreover, his participation in the Explosia had recently
been rejected, there is no reason to bring up the explosives field for
discussion again with respect to the Verein after the basic discussion on 3
July 1942 and the Prague conversation of 22 February 1943. Should the Prager
Verein show intentions at some later date (whether in Bohemia/Moravia,
Slovakia, or in the countries of Southeastern Europe, that is, as defined in
the skeleton agreement of 3 July 1942, the countries of Croatia, Serbia,
Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria) of undertaking any activity in the explosives
field, an entirely new situation would be created and corresponding
negotiations would have to be opened with the Prager Verein based on reference
to the integrity of IG Pressburg's interests in the explosives field, which she
claimed |
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