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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-6941
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT NO. 1164
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| LETTER OF FARBEN TO THE REICH MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS, 1 AUGUST 1941,
CONCERNING THE PURCHASE OF FRENCH SHARES IN THE “WINNICA”
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I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengellschaft
Management Department
Dyestuffs |
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[Stamp]
Legal Department, Dyestuffs
Received: 4 August 1941 |
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Frankfurt/Main 20
1 August
1941 |
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To: The Reich Ministry of Economics
Attention: Assessor
Dr.Scheidtmann
Berlin W 8, Behrenstrasse 43 |
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Purchase by our company of the 1,006 shares of the “Chemische
Fabrik Winnica A. G.,” Winnica near Warsaw, at present owned by the
Centrale des Matières Colorantes Paris. |
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We beg to refer to the interview which our Dr. Kufuss had with you
on 30 July 1941 regarding the above matter, the contents of which we repeat in
the proposition below:
The “Chemische Fabrik Winnica A. G.,”
Winnica near Warsaw, was founded in 1929 in agreement with us by the French
dyestuffs industry in order, on the one hand, to create an enterprise to rival
the Polish factories in Poland and, on the other hand, to maintain and regain
business (lost through customs and import restrictions) by manufacturing goods
in the country itself. Organic coal-tar dyes were to be produced. The final
capital of the company amounted to 2 million zloty, divided into shares of
1,000 zloty each. Originally the French group and, at Farben's suggestion, the
firm of Eduard Greutert & Co., Basel, each took half the shares in the
company. Later the Greutert firm passed on the Winnica shares in its possession
to the firm of H. Sturzenegger & Cie., Basel. Ostensibly, Winnica, however,
always passed as an entirely French company. The necessary means for covering
the working capital were put at the disposal of Winnica by the French group and
debited accordingly; we, on the other hand, charged the French group —
basing ourselves on the original joint management — with our share of half
of this working advance in each case. As is known, I. G. Farben will acquire a
51 percent holding in the French dyestuffs industry in the course of the
reorganization of European dyestuffs production. Within the framework of this
reorgani […zation] |
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