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| were suddenly inducted; the fact that other acquaintances were not
discharged after the usual period of service, but remained with their units;
the putting into operation of the mobilization plans of the individual plants,
especially, as already mentioned before, of Ludwigshafen; the commencement of
operations of the stabilizer plant in Wolfen at the end of 1938, beginning of
1939; the increase in the production of diglycol, which was being used for
explosives; the interest which was being shown by the Wehrmacht in
direct-process mustard gas [Direkt-Lost], to be produced in Gendorf.
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Through my acquaintance with various officers of the Wehr\macht,
which was not based on personal friendship but rather on purely professional
collaboration, I learned about troop movements to the East and the West before
the outbreak of war. I also considered this an indication of aggressive war, as
well as the experiments and developmental work of the IG with the Wehrmacht.
The conclusions at which I arrived were of a purely private nature and
it was not my duty to inform the chiefs of the IG of my conclusions in this
respect, as we were not a political liaison office, but a purely technical one.
Members of the Economic Research Department [VOWI] probably knew about these
events, and also members of the Political-Economic Policy Department [WIPO].
However, owing to the existing tension between the commercial people and the
technicians, I never took the opportunity to discuss these things with
them. |
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13. The mobilization plans were constantly being reviewed by the
Vermittlungsstelle W and the Wehrmacht, especially as the Wehrmacht kept
changing its plans.
I have carefully read each of the six pages of this
affidavit and countersigned it with my own hand, have made the necessary
corrections in my own handwriting and initialed them, and I herewith declare
under oath that I have stated the full truth in this affidavit to the best of
my knowledge and belief. |
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| [Signed] DR. HANS WAGNER |
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