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d. Extracts from the Testimony of Prosecution
Witness
Hans Wagner* |
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| CROSS-EXAMINATION |
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| DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch) : I now am turning to
Exhibit 247, which you will find in book 9, English page 57. Here I am
particularly interested in paragraph 3 - I beg your pardon, it is paragraph 5.
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“* * * the IG developed
complete plans which laid down for each product the production plant, the
processing plant, and other consumers.” |
Does the concept, “pioneer work,” not signify for us
Germans a particular type of work? I should say that the invention of
“buna” was pioneer work, and I should therefore like to ask you
whether this is a correct interpretation, and whether we are united in our
interpretation of that term?
WITNESS WAGNER: Yes.
Q. The
drawing up these plans was a well-ordered organizational task?
A. I was
of the opinion — and I intended to express the opinion, which I gained
from talks with my colleagues in Vermittlungstelle W — that the IG had
shown for the first time how such plans had to be drawn up in order to make
sense.
Q. Yes. Dr. Wagner, didn't that follow from the fact that if the
IG was active in a field as such, this field had its significance for the
construction of the organization generally?
A. Yes, that is no doubt
true. But in the beginning, these plans were always drawn up for a single plant
so that there were many difficulties and mistakes, and only when it had been
exhaustively worked out was it possible to draw up plans which could secure
definite production. |
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BY DR. LUMMERT (counsel for defendant Kuehne) : Witness, I have a
question in connection with your affidavit NI-8925. You will find that in German document book
9, on page 57 in the English. May I ask you if you have this affidavit before
you?
A. Yes, I have it here.
Q. In this affidavit you are
speaking of mobilization plans. Four different expressions are used in the
German text. In the English translation, there are five different expressions.
The |
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in the mimeographed transcript, 9 September and 8 October 1947, pp.
649-622: and 1794-1921.
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