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[Accord…] ing to the statement which you made in connection with
the preceding affidavit, I may assume that this affidavit too, can be
interpreted to mean that Dr. Wurster, as far as you remember, only participated
in one conference, probably — and I emphasize "probably" — in
September 1939.
A. As far as we are here concerned with the problem of
Ludwigshafen, Counsel, if you are so precise I must go back to the year 1936 or
1937 when there were a number of conferences regarding the situation of the
German sulfur supply, especially the erection of sulfur production plants. Dr.
Wurster took part in these conferences.
Q. We would have to refer to
your statement in greater detail, but I think it is beyond the contents of the
affidavit which is now a subject of discussion; have I interpreted your
statement correctly with reference to the contents of this affidavit?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, if before the outbreak of the war, that is in
the summer of 1939, negotiations took place about the transfer of installations
in Ludwigshafen and the stoppage of work in Ludwigshafen, the participants in
these conferences must have been other gentlemen of the IG. Do you know for
what reasons the participants in these conferences did not agree with the
decision made by the Reich Office Chemistry?
A. They did not do so on
technological grounds.
Q. Would you please explain your reply in
greater detail?
A. Ludwigshafen represents a very complicated plant.
One production and installation is closely connected with every other one.
This, in particular, holds true of the modern parts of the Ludwigshafen plant
which were then the subjects of the discussions. The removal of any part of the
plant would, under circumstances, have lead to considerable difficulties from
the point of view of production. Is that sufficient?
Q. Yes, this is
the technical aspect. My question concerned another aspect. If I put to you
that the negotiating gentlemen of the IG thought that this entire prerequisite
for this removal in the case of war was something entirely theoretical, and
that they therefore objected to the transfer of Ludwigshafen, do you think that
is possible?
A. I don't think it is out of the question, although this
reason was not given at the time.
Q. But you admit the possibility as
such, do you?
A. Yes.
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