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| foreign trade balance has given you an impressive picture of our
economic cooperation with the other peoples! But above all stands our
cooperation with those two great Powers who have recognized a world danger in
Bolshevism, just as Germany has, and are determined to unite their strength in
common defense against the Comintern movement. That this work of cooperation
with Italy and Japan may ever become closer is my sincere desire. In addition,
we are happy for every relief of tension that can be effected in the general
political situation. For, however great may be the achievement of our people,
we are not in doubt that general prosperity would be increased if a closer
international cooperation could be secured. |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-14507
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 2014
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| SECRET MEMORANDUM OF THE DEFENDANT HAEFLIGER, 16 MARCH 1938,
CONCERNING THE MEETING OF FARBEN'S COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE ON THE DAY BEFORE THE
GERMAN INVASION OF AUSTRIA* |
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Frankfurt a.M |
16 March 1938 |
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Re: Construction Projects in Frankfurt and Berlin
First item
on the agenda of the meeting of the Commercial Committee of 11 March of this
year was the "M-question" [mobilization question].
Let us call to mind
for a moment the atmosphere in which this meeting took place. Already at 0930
the first alarming messages had reached us. Dr. Fischer returned excited from a
telephone conversation and reported that the Gasoline [Deutsche Gasolin A.G.]
had received instructions to supply all gas stations [Benzinstellen] in Bavaria
and in other parts of southern Germany towards the Czech border. A quarter of
an hour later, there came a telephone call from Burghausen according to which
quite a number of workers had already been called to arms, and the mobilization
in Bavaria was in full swing. In the absence of official information, which was
made known only in the evening, we were uncertain whether, simultaneously with
the march into Austria, which to us was already an established fact, there
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* This memorandum was
introduced in evidence during the cross-examination of the defendant Haefliger,
as appears from the pertinent testimony of the defendant Haefliger reproduced
below in subsection O 7b.
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