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Hemmen showed clearly that in these circumstances a policy of delay
and further waiting on our side until the late autumn or early winter would
give us an effective basis for our negotiations.
The following points
in his statements are worthy of note:
1. The intention to do away with
Reich treasury notes [Reichskassenscbeine] and thereby to shift to France the
formal responsibility for the shaping of her finances.
2. The statement
that we have decided to introduce again the lowest possible tariff into the
customs zone on an autonomous basis. Hemmen hopes in this way to activate the
necessary exports to France.
To our objection that sometimes even the
lowest customs duties are not adequate for large-scale export (for example, of
photographic and pharmaceutical articles to France), he requested that Farben
should submit a collection of its wishes with regard to customs, together with
the reasons for them, so that they could be made use of in further negotiations
with the French.
It is important to add to the statements of Hemmen the
result of a conversation with the Reich Ministry of Economics, that the
introduction of minimum tariffs by the Germans will obviously lead to France
also applying minimum tariffs to German exports to France. The final and formal
handling of this problem has not yet been completely settled at the present
time, but it should be settled in the near future.
14 September
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-792*
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM DEFENDANT KUGLER TO DR. TERHAAR, 12 SEPTEMBER 1940,
CONCERNING FARBEN'S PROPOSAL TO PREVENT RESUMPTION OF FRENCH DYESTUFFS
MANUFACTURE FOR THE PRESENT, AND RELATED MATTERS |
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Dr. Jost Terhaar,
Berlin NW 7, Unter den Linden
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| 12 September 1940 |
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Dear Dr. Terhaar,
Thank you for your letter of the 9th
instant. The file note which you drafted gives an excellent summary of the
course and results of the Paris and Brussels meetings. After looking through my
own notes I have practically nothing to add. With regard to the
“official” part, I would only suggest that you might perhaps mention
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* Photographic reproduction
of this document appears in the appendix.
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