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Q. Now, I show you Document NI-8148,
which will become Prosecution Exhibit 1881.* This is an affidavit by you which
has so far not been mentioned. Apart from this modification you just made with
respect to the preliminary discussions on the model agreement concerning the
East corporations, do you still believe that this affidavit sets forth matters
fairly?
A. It is described the other way around here, as though the
model agreement for the Synthese-Kautschuk-Ost [G. m. b. H.] served as the
model for other contracts.
Q. Did you find anything else, Doctor?
A. I only read this one paragraph about the model of a contract. Am I
to read the rest as well?
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: The witness wishes to
know, Mr. Prosecutor, whether you want him to answer as to the entire document,
or whether you wish to direct his attention to some particular statement in the
document.
MR. SPRECHER : May I draw your attention —
PRESIDING JUDGE SHAKE: May I suggest that if you are concerned about
the entire document, why not let the question pass until 3 o'clock, and he can
read it then during recess, and then he can answer it. Is that agreeable?
MR. SPRECHER: May I further suggest that, if the defendant has any
suggestions, that he take the initiative at that time with respect to
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MR. SPRECHER : Dr. ter Meer, after the recess you were going to make
some reference to Prosecution Exhibit 1881, Document NI-8148; the affidavit concerning the Russian
matter.
DEFENDANT TER MEER: After having been able to read this
affidavit during recess, I can state that my testimony with respect to that
model agreement was true. The affidavit was dictated at the time by Mr.
Newmann; and if two sentences, which incorrectly follow each other here, are
properly read, we see that it was not Dr. Ambros and I who drew up that model
agreement- - rather, it says that the model agreement was not only to be the
basis for the Synthese-Kautschuk-Ost G. m. b. H., but it was also to serve as a
basis for other East companies.
As far as I remember, I discussed with
Mr. Ambros the model of a trustee contract, and recommended such clauses to be
incorporated into it as belonged to the justified interests of Farben.
It is just as I said: model contracts were, as far as I know, worked
out in the Reich Ministry of Economics by Dr. Ungewitter of the Economic Group,
together with representatives of industry. I discussed it with Dr. Ambros, and
I then extended it to include the clause concerning the Synthese-Kautschuk-Ost
G. m. b. H.— which company, |
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Reproduced immediately above.
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