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A. I don't remember that. I mean, you mentioned, Mr. Sprecher, that
in this meeting the question to favor German newspapers in Czechoslovakia was
mentioned. I don't remember it, but in this case it must have been the case
because you say you have it from the minutes, and I would like now to check the
minutes of the K.A., whether the decision that we should give also some
advertising matters to the German papers in Czechoslovakia was not already
decided in the Commercial Committee.
Q. Please don't change the subject, Mr.
Witness. If you want to do something like that at the request of defense
counsel or at my request, you may do so, but it isn't necessary to go into a
side avenue here.
I want
to ask you just one more question. At this meeting, didn't you also talk about
employing Sudeten Germans in IG so that you could later be ready to employ
these Sudeten Germans in the rest of Czechoslovakia — that is, that part
of Czechoslovakia which had nothing to do with the Sudetenland?
A. I don't remember that.
Q. The document in
question, Your Honors, is already in evidence. It is Prosecution Exhibit 833.
It is Document NI-6221.* I won't trouble you long
with this document. Only to ask you one or two things. Do you know where Ilgner
was at the time of that conference which was on 23 May 1938?
A. No, I don't know.
Q. You notice that Dr. Kugler was among
the persons present?
A.
No, that was not Dr. Kugler but Dr. Kuegler.
Q. I beg your pardon. The difference is in
the umlaut?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, would you turn
over to page 4 of the original German where there is a heading called
“trainees”?
A.
You mean the question of “Nachwuchs”?
Q. I beg your pardon. The question of
trainees [Nachwuchs]. It is just after the proposed action with respect to
removing the non-Aryan lawyer, Dr. Fanta, and replacing him with a suitable
German lawyer. Just after that, Dr. Frank-Fahle, comes the heading,
“Trainees.” I should say it is the third paragraph from the bottom of
the original German. You see that?
A. Yes.
Q. So
there was some discussion in your presence about this eventuality of taking
over all of Czechoslovakia at that time?
A. No, this is a conclusion you make from
this.
Q. Well, you give
me your conclusion about that. I think the words are very clear. |
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