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enough technical background for you to be expected to give such
technical information?
A. As a businessman I do not have such technical
background.
Q. The next subject is the Boruta. This morning it was
mentioned that there were a certain number of German employees working in
Boruta. How were these German employees engaged?
A. Schoener and I
could not manage the Polish personnel, few of whom knew the German language
sufficiently, because we had a flood of regulations and directives, all worded
in the “to be answered by * * *,” et cetera, style. For that reason,
I asked Farben for assistance which they granted me.
Q. Did this
request emanate from you or from Farben?
A. From me, personally,
because we could not do our work properly. In Lodz it was said that we were
expected to board a train running at full speed!
Q. Would you have been
able to get similar special assistance from some other agency?
A. No.
Q. The last subject. Do you know of any relations between the defendant
von Schnitzler and Himmler?
A. No.
Q. Did you personally, Mr.
Schwab, have any relations with high Party functionaries in Poland or with
leading SS persons?
A. No, I neither knew Greiser,* nor Frank, the
Governor General of Poland, personally — that is, I was not introduced to
either of these gentlemen, and I kept out of their way. My acquaintance who had
the highest position was the Regierungspraesident in Lodz, otherwise I knew
only district chiefs.
Q. Were these people Party functionaries, or were
they in the government?
A. They were Party people with government
functions.
DR. VON KELLER: I have no further questions.
JUDGE
MORRIS: Are there any more questions on the part of counsel? If not, I would
like to inquire of the witness: With whom in Farben did you negotiate in order
to obtain the Boruta loans you have told us about?
A. I did not
understand the question, Your Honor.
Q. With what individuals in the
Farben organization did you negotiate when you obtained the Boruta loans that
you have testified about?
A. I only talked or wrote to Dr. von
Schnitzler about it and to his adjutant, Mr. Eckert. |
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* Arthur Greiser was the
Reichsstatthalter (governor) and Gauleiter of NSDAP of the Wartheland from 1939
to 1945.
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