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Q. Would you say that the loans that Farben made to you as trustee of
Boruta were made by Farben entirely on a voluntary basis?
A. Yes. There
was no legal basis of any other nature.
Q. And the request for the loan
was made by you entirely as your own idea, and not under the suggestion of any
Reich government official?
A. It was my own cry for help. No government
official suggested it. They could not help me.
Q. When the purchase was
made by Farben of the Boruta property — that is, real estate, the plant,
and the stockpiles — would you say that that purchase was made voluntarily
upon the part of Farben, or was that made under some governmental pressure?
A. No; no pressure on the part of the government. It was a voluntary
resolution of Farben to save these plants from destruction or to protect them
against falling into the hands of speculators.
Q. Thank you; that's all
of my questions.
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: Are there any other questions
that any of counsel desire to ask this witness? Since none is requested, the
Tribunal will excuse the witness from further attendance. |
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| 6. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT TER MEER |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT FRITZ TER
MEER* |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BERNDT (counsel for defendant ter Meer) : Mr. President, Your
Honors. The defendants are charged with having undertaken acts of plunder in
Poland. However, up to this point the prosecution has not stated specifically
against whom among the defendants they bring this charge. Up to this point, the
problem of Poland has not yet been clarified, partly because individual
defendants have not taken the witness stand, and partly because no exhaustive
questions have been put about this problem.
In the interest of
clarifying the Polish question, I therefore see myself forced, not only for
defendant ter Meer, but also for Your Honors’ enlightenment and for the
presentation of the point of view of the defense to the prosecution also, to
clarify this Polish question somewhat. I should like to ask you, Dr. ter Meer,
to tell me briefly what the chemical industry in Poland was like before the
Second World War, |
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* Further extracts are
reproduced below in subsections D 3, E 4 and section IX F 2; and earlier, in
section VII C 5b, E 3, G 3, H 4b. I 7e, J 4, K 3a,
M 3 and O 7a, In volume VII this series.
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