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[par…] ticipation. The countersuggestion of the Ministry of
Production is: 45 percent German group, 45 percent French group, 10 percent
French government. For its 10 percent participation, the French Government
demands to be represented in the Aufsichtsrat.
Dr. Kramer has stated
that the countersuggestion is not acceptable. Farben, he said, must insist on a
51 percent participation; as a maximum concession, points 2 and 3 could be
granted in accordance with the discussions of 2 March. Under the circumstances,
Dr. Kramer does not consider it expedient to conduct the contemplated
negotiations. He feels it is necessary first to put the French agencies under
pressure before taking up further discussions.
Dr. Kramer will transmit
a written report to Frankfurt through either Mr. Mack of the firm
Lanz-Mannheim, or Mr. Fischer of the firm Zeiss-Jena; these gentlemen will
arrive in Frankfurt on the Paris train on 7 March, at 12 o'clock.
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TRANSLATION OF
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| COPY OF A LETTER FROM DEFENDANT VON SCHNITZLER TO MINISTER HEMMEN, 17
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| Copy of a Letter to Minister Dr. Hemmen, Dated 17 March 1941
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Dear Minister,
Will you please allow me to come back to
the conversation we just had at the Potsdamer Bahnhof [railroad station in
Berlin].
The result of the negotiations with the French dyestuffs
industry has fully met our demands. According to my sincere convictions, this
would never have been accomplished had not the Reich agencies in both Wiesbaden
and Paris helped and advised us in so outstanding a way. Under these
circumstances, it would be most embarrassing for us if any discord between the
Reich agencies were to overshadow the whole affair. The entire matter has
developed so automatically that one could really not speak of interference by
the Paris authorities in a pending procedure.
Wiesbaden had recommended
to us to make the trip since Vichy had approved of our program, and since there
was only one not exactly definable detail concerning the question of the
“eternal” French president which needed clarification. But during the
first discussion with the French group, we found out that they did not yet know
anything about such approval by Vichy, but that Vichy was considering a
compromise suggestion, according to which the French State would be included as
third participant with a share of 10 percent, while the other two groups were
to receive 45 percent each.
We declared that this suggestion was
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