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by the way, was never actually formed, as you know — it was only
in theory.
Q. I also understood the affidavit in the way you described
it, insofar as you mentioned that you did have a trustee agreement from
somebody else as a basis for working out a further trustee agreement which
would be applicable in the chemical field in particular, with respect to buna.
So with that statement, I do not think that the Court would be at all confused
on our respective positions on that point.
A. Thank you.
Q.
Now, do you have anything else to say?
A. No, nothing at all.
Q. I mean about this affidavit?
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DR. BERNDT (counsel for defendant ter Meer) : Mr. President, I do not
think I can start on Poland today, but, with Your Honor's permission, I could
use these 2 minutes to ask Dr. ter Meer three questions about the Russian
problem. Thank you very much.
Dr. ter Meer, during your
cross-examination on 17 February 1948, the prosecution submitted to you Exhibit
1881, which is an affidavit that you made on 23 April 1947 about those trustee
corporations which were to be founded in Russia, and about the
Synthese-Kautschuk-Ost G. m. b. H. Do you have anything to change in that
affidavit?
DEFENDANT TER MEER: No, the affidavit is in order.
Q. Then the second question: What happened to the
Synthese-Kautschuk-Ost G. m. b. H.?
A. Nothing at all, Dr. Berndt. It
was never founded. Only drafts for people from the Reich Ministry of Economics.
It concerns a draft of a trustee agreement between Farben, the Reich and the
Synthese-Kautschuk-Ost G. m. b. H., and two drafts of the letters that were to
be written in connection with the agreement, but neither the agreement nor the
two letters were ever actually completed.
Q. The last question now: the
entire affair came to nothing; is that right?
A. Yes, that is correct.
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