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A. Yes. It had become superfluous in Poland.
Q. I didn't ask you whether it was
superfluous. Was it the only one in Poland? Is your answer yes?
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE.
Now wait a minute. He does not have to say, “yes.”
WITNESS SCHWAB. Yes.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE. Very well. Go
ahead.
MR. NEWMAN. And
was it one of the three plants of this kind in Europe?
A. I do not know how many such plants were
in Europe.
Q. Did I
correctly understand you this morning that the 100,000 zloty for the
anthraquinone plant were paid back to Farben?
A. Not to Farben, but to Winnica.
Q. Do you know of any
individual case since September 1939, where any compensation was paid to any
expropriated Polish or Jewish owner?
A. Until I left Poland that was not the
case.
MR. NEWMAN: I have
no further questions, Your Honor.
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DR. VON KELLER: In connection with the last question of the
representative of the prosecution, I should like to ask you for information.
What were the regulations governing the compensation to be paid for
expropriated property in Poland?
WITNESS SCHWAB: No final, or even
preliminary, regulations had been issued. The liquidator made all preparations
in Boruta to carry out the liquidation according to German regulations, and I
already mentioned that, in regard to the savings funds, he considered them as
priority claims. Furthermore, I have learned that the liquidator prepared to
call the shareholders. Whether this was actually carried out I do not know.
Q. Do you know that in the first decree which was issued concerning
this confiscation a compensation was provided for?
A. I would have to
see that decree. I can say nothing from memory.
Q. Was it left to the
individual firms who bought something from Poland, or in Poland, to decide to
whom they would pay the purchase price of confiscated property?
A. That
either went to the Trustee Office in Berlin, or, in the area of the Government
General, to the trustee administration office in Cracow.
Q. Another
subject, Mr. Witness. You have just been asked whether you knew how many
anthraquinone plants existed in Europe. I should like you to tell me, for
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