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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
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| TELETYPE FROM DEFENDANT VON SCHNITZLER TO DIRECTOR KRUEGER, 7
SEPTEMBER 1939, CONCERNING POLISH DYESTUFFS FACTORIES |
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| Teletyped to: Berlin |
To Director Dr. Krueger |
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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
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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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