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| A. Yes, and I believe the stock was never so high as after this
transaction. The Prager Verein stock, I mean. |
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Q. I have now finished your examination on the question of the
acquisition of the Aussig-Falkenau plants. I should merely like to ask in
conclusion, Mr. Haefliger, whether, in this entire transaction at any time you
were aware that Czech property was being stolen?
A. I must deny that
emphatically. I was convinced that the Prager Verein, because of political
developments, could no longer hold the Aussig-Falkenau plants, but that in the
sale of these plants it received a purchase price and other important
concessions which were very proper remuneration and suffered no financial
loss. |
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| b. Testimony of Defendant Krauch |
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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT KRAUCH¹
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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MR. SPRECHER: Now, was there any question in your mind but what the
Norsk-Hydro project was a part of the order of the Grosswirtschaftsraum²
theory, under which the Norwegian economy, as well as other economies, was to
be mobilized to work for Germany?
DEFENDANT KRAUCH: The word
Grosswirtschaftsraum was used very often at the time. I believe it would have
been a plan which would have been put into operation after a successful
completion of the war, successful for Germany. Much has been said about the
Grosswirtschaftsraum, but I believe very little of it has been
realized. |
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¹ Further extracts
from the testimony of the defendant Krauch are reproduced above in sub-sections
C 5, F3, G 7, H 4 a, I 7 a, L 3 a, and in section LX F 1.
vol. XIII, this series.
² A literal translation of this word is
“Greater Economic Sphere.”
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