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Ministry of Economics which could not be granted because the persons
who then represented the Foreign Organization at the Reich Ministry of
Economics refused to countersign the authorization granting the applications, a
conference between representatives of the IG and all the departments of the
Reich Ministry of Economics concerned was arranged at the instance of
Ministerialdirigent Dr. Landwehr who supported our point of view for the
purpose of reaching a general decision on the question of policy with regard to
the payment of such compensation. Eighteen to 20 persons in all were present at
that meeting. My assistants and I, together with the representatives of the
sales organizations of the IG fought at that meeting with such determination
for the permits for which we had applied, that one of the representatives of
the Foreign Organization present — I have forgotten his name —
remarked during the meeting, that “the gentlemen of the IG are fighting
for the claims of the Jews as if they were their own claims. They seem to have
no idea as yet of the spirit of the Third Reich.”
After an
extremely difficult, and at times acrimonious, debate we succeeded in pushing
our original claims through with minor alterations to our disadvantage.
The attitude of the IG as formulated and criticized in the
above-mentioned meeting was one of the reasons why considerable difficulties
were placed in the way of the IG in trying to guard its interests in Austria
after the Anschluss. It was reproached with having proved itself politically
unreliable from the National Socialist point of view in that it had, among
other things, done very little about the dismissal of non-Aryans from the
Austrian organizations of the IG, in spite of repeated requests to that effect.
Numerous Jews did, as a matter of fact, still hold positions in IG enterprises
in Austria in March 1938. I can remember clearly that ways and means of
counteracting the unfavorable impression made on the Party were discussed at
the time by the committees of the IG.
The prosecution document
NI-9289* (affidavit of Dr. Guenther Frank-Fahle)
has been shown to me. It contains excerpts from minutes of meetings of the
Commercial Committee. The following passage occurs on page 4 of the original:
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“3 Personnel
There exists complete agreement as to the fact that, in order to
safeguard uniform Farben interests, all non-Aryans employed by the Austrian
organizations, in accordance with the directives issued by Geheimrat Schmitz,
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* Prosecution Exhibit 1069,
reproduced above in subsection 2.
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