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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-15228
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER, SIGNED BY DEFENDANTS
SCHNITZLER AND KUGLER, TO FARBEN’S
DR. KRAMER IN PARIS, 8 NOVEMBER 1940 |
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Dr. Hans Kramer
C/o “SOPI”
Paris 16, 32/34 rue
Galilée |
| 8 November 1940 |
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Quite apart from the fact that it would not have been very well
possible to oppose Mr. Hemmen’s desire to have the negotiations take place
in Wiesbaden, we should definitely like to welcome this development of the
matter as being in our interest. It is quite obvious that our tactical position
towards the French will be far stronger if the first fundamental discussion
takes place in Germany and, more particularly, at the site of the Armistice
Delegation; and if our program as outlined, is presented, so to speak, from
official quarters.
We do not know whether you have already mentioned to
Ministerialdirektor Michel and the members of his staff that it was our
original plan to have the negotiations take place in Paris. Of course, we
should like to avoid any ill feelings on the part of the Paris agencies, with
which we will have to cooperate closely in the further course of discussions
with the French group. We also feel we may assume that the gentlemen will have
complete understanding for our complying at once with a wish expressed by the
Armistice Delegation, this wish presumably being based on the fact that similar
negotiations concerning industries of direct military importance have already
been conducted in Wiesbaden, and that the settlement in the dyestuffs field is
to serve, to a certain extent, as a pattern for other industrial
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Sincerely
I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Signed: v. SCHNITZLER
Signed: KUGLER |
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