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| 5. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KUGLER |
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EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENDANT
KUGLER¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. VON KRAFFT² (associate counsel for defendant Kugler) : Mr.
Kugler, when examining you about Francolor, we want to take into account that,
according to an order of the Tribunal, Dr. Meer is going to be examined about
Francolor subsequent to your examination. Therefore, I shall confine myself
only to these questions that are not going to be gone into by Dr. ter
Meer.³
I have a few preliminary questions: Did you work on the
French business of Farben, or in what capacity did you participate in the
French negotiations?
DEFENDANT KUGLER: I participated in these
negotiations in my capacity as head of Directorate Department Dyestuffs, with
which, up to the war, the so-called Central Agency for International Dyestuffs
Agreements had been connected.
Q. Were you, in the case of Francolor,
also the executive organ?
A. Just as the work on the technical part of
the later agreement was done by the TEA office, and just as the legal questions
were handled by Dr. Kuepper, as the manager of the Legal Department Dyestuffs,
so the commercial part was worked on by the Directorate Department Dyestuffs
— and to a certain extent, one can characterize my functions, (or one can
compare them) to the activity of Dr. Struss in the TEA office, or with the
activity of Dr. Kuepper in the Legal Department Dyestuffs.
Q. Did you
have a decisive influence on the question as to whether or not the Francolor
negotiations would be concluded by Farben, and on the basic contents of the
agreements?
A. One cannot say that. The decision was not in my hands,
but in the final analysis it was in the hands of the Vorstand members.4
Q. Mr. Kugler, please tell us when you
started to participate in the work and in the negotiations which brought about
the Francolor agreement.
A. As head of the Secretariat to the
Directorate, I participated in the preliminary work; then, I participated in
the preliminary discussions that were conducted with the Armistice Commission
in Wiesbaden. Whether I participated in all of these meetings I do not
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¹ Further extracts are
reproduced earlier in section VII C 5g and O 7d, volume VII, this
series.
² Dr. von Krafft’s complete given and family name is Dr.
Leopold Krafft von Dellmensingen, but he used the abbreviated form “Dr.
von Krafft” in signing motions and petitions.
³ See the later
testimony of defendant ter Meer, reproduced in 6 below.
4 Defendant Kugler was one of four defendants who
were not members of Farber’s managing board.
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