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Purpose  Production of dyestuffs and intermediate products 
Manager  Dr. Maurycy Szpilfogel
Stock capital Owner Zloty 1,078,425 
Plant   Wola Krzysztoporska 
Products  Dyestuffs, intermediate products 
Turnover  1936: :zloty 2,700,000 
Personnel  141 workers, 17 office employees 
HP installed  200 
 
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  TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-8457
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1138
 
TELETYPE FROM DEFENDANT VON SCHNITZLER TO DIRECTOR KRUEGER, 7 SEPTEMBER 1939, CONCERNING POLISH DYESTUFFS FACTORIES 
 
Teletyped to: Berlin   To Director Dr. Krueger
 
From: Management Department Dyestuffs, 7 September 1939

Request you to inform Reich Ministry of Economics now of the following facts:

It is to be assumed that four Polish dyestuffs factories will fall into German hands within the next few days, in particular the purely Polish factories of Przemysl Chemiczny Boruta in Zgierz and the Chemiczna Fabryka Wola Krzysztoporska in Wola Krzysztoporska; in addition, the Pabjanicka Towarzystwo Akcyjne Przemyslu Chemicznego belonging to the [Swiss] I. G. Chemie in Pabjanica (the director of which is the Swiss Vice Consul Thommen). All three are situated in close proximity to Lodz, as well as the Zaklady Chemiczne w Winnicy Sp. Ake. situated about 12 kilometers northeast of Warsaw, in Winnica. The last-mentioned firm belongs half to the “Centrale des Matières Colorantes,” Paris, and half to the " I. G. Chemie," Basel, but it is in close business contact with us as, together with the CMC, we have constantly harmonized its production program and, side by side with the French sales organizations, have sold half of the Winnica products through the medium of our representatives in Poland. All four factories together have covered more than half of the Polish dyestuffs needs; the entirely Polish factories have supplied about 30 percent. Pabjanice and Winnica are members of the dyestuffs cartel; both the Polish factories in Zgierz and Wola had a longterm cartel agreement with the tripartite dyestuffs cartel [Dreierfarbenkartell] for the regulation of their sales, whereby they were
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* Dr. Szpilfogel appeared as a prosecution witness on 23 October 1947. His complete testimony is recorded in the mimeographed transcript, pp. 2629-2661.
 
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