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| ultimate ownership is completely undecided yet, it is recommended
that funds should be secured for the use of the plant. |
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Signed: SCHMITZ
Signed: BUHL |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-8380
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT NO.
1141 |
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| LETTER FROM FARBEN TO THE REICH MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS, 10 NOVEMBER
1939, CONCERNING POLISH DYESTUFFS PLANTS |
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I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft — Management
Berlin NW 7, Unter den Linden 82
v. Sch/G/Ksch |
10 November 1939 |
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To the Reich Ministry of Economics
Attention:
Ministerialdirigent Dr. Mulert
Berlin W. 8, Behrenstr.43
Subject:
Polish Dyestuffs Plants
We beg to refer to our conversation of this
morning, and take the liberty of confirming in writing what we suggested then
as being, in our opinion, the most expedient way of shaping the further
development of the dyestuffs plants which are situated in the former Polish
territory.
1. Since the new frontiers have been set up, the. principal
plants belonging to the most important of the factories concerned in the
chemical industry, “Boruta” A, G., that is to say, Zgierz, as well as
the “Wola” plant, all come within the new Warthegau.¹ In the
Government General,² the Sarzyna plants near Sandomir belonging to the
chemical factory “Boruta,” as well as the chemical factory Winnica,
all lie in the immediate surroundings of Warsaw. For the plants which are now
situated in the Warthegau, the position today is as follows:
“Boruta” has practically no plant equipment. The
installations are mortgaged against loans from the Polish State Agriculture
Bank up to a total of 6,100,000 zloty. From the point of view of private
economy, the firm would be considered on the verge of bankruptcy.
The
considerably smaller factory, “Wola” (which was formerly under Jewish
ownership) has also been partially damaged during the war and, apart from this,
would have no justification for its existence as it is not built on practical
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¹ The "Warthega" was a
popular name for the "Wartheland," that part of Poland which had formerly
belonged to the Republic of Poland and which, after the dismemberment of Poland
following the German invasion of 1939 was incorporated into the German Retch.
² Government General (Generalgouvernement) refers to the
administrative region established by the Germans in Central Poland after the
1939 invasion.
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