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[reorgani...] zation, a French participation in a dyestuffs factory
located in the General Government was no longer desirable. We therefore reached
an agreement with the French dyestuffs industry to purchase the 1,006 Winnica
shares which they hold. A purchasing price of 1 million reichsmarks was agreed
upon, subject to the simultaneous transfer of the claims of the French group on
Winnica to us, as well as the cancellation of the claims of the IG on the
French group regarding the title “Winnica.”
As soon as we
obtain your permission, payment of the above-mentioned purchasing price will be
made in cash. We herewith beg to request the Reich Ministry of Economics to
authorize us to remit the amount of 1 million reichsmarks to the
Établissements Kuhlmann, Paris, for the French group, and we request
instructions regarding the franc account through which the payment is to be
made. |
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Heil Hitler!
I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Signed: v. SCHNITZLER
Signed: by proxy, Eckert |
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| 3. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT ILGNER |
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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT
ILGNER¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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| DR. NATH (counsel for defendant Ilgner) :Dr. Ilgner, we were talking
about count two of the indictment and the subject of Poland. I have only one
single question on that subject. In part 1 of the Trial Brief, on page 102 in
connection with Poland, there is the following sentence, and I quote:
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“On 28 July 1939, a
comprehensive report was prepared under the direction of the defendant Ilgner,
which was entitled ‘The Most Important Chemical Plants in
Poland.’” |
Do you know this report of which the prosecution submitted three
excerpt in exhibits 1135, 1136, and 1137, 2 all in book 55?
DEFENDANT
ILGNER: I did not know it before. I note it is a typical specialized report of
the VOWI, dozens of which were constantly being prepared. I have already
testified here from the witness stand that the VOWI, in 1934 or 1935 — or
at the time of the Friendship Pact with Pilsudsky — was interested in the
Polish market and at that time prepared an extensive market analysis treating
especially dyestuffs in Poland.
Q. Now, on 28 July 1939, as the
prosecution contends, did you have a new work on Poland prepared?
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¹ Further extracts are
reproduced in subsection E 4 below, and in sections IV D 2, VII D 4b,
and 0 7c In volume VII, this series.
² Reproduced in full or in
part in 2 above.
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