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At any rate, I never heard that a trustee company was founded in the
field of light metals.
Q. Mr. Haefliger, let me put to you one sentence
from Prosecution Exhibit 1998, and I quote: |
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| “It was declared in general that, as far as one could see,
there was no question of any reconstruction of the Russian light metal plants
since labor conditions and the supplying of raw materials, and so forth, would
probably be too difficult from the point of view of
transportation.” |
Did you know about that fact when writing your letter, Exhibit 1996?
A. No. As I said, I was only informed about that through the letter of
Dr. Ziegler.
Q. Would you have written the letter, Exhibit 1996, at
all, had you known of that?
A. No, then there would have been no reason
to do that.
Q. Did you know anything about the stripping of light metal
plants for semifinished products in Russia which is mentioned in Exhibit No.
1998, in the last paragraph?
A. No; I never heard anything about that.
Q. If I understood you correctly, you said that this exchange of
correspondence, at any rate as far as you know, had no results.
A. Yes,
that is true; there were no results as far as I know. |
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| d. Affidavit and Testimony of Defendant
Ilgner |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-6348
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
1209 |
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EXTRACTS FROM AN AFFIDAVIT OF DEFENDANT MAX ILGNER,
10 APRIL
1947 |
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| AFFIDAVIT |
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I, Dr. Max Ilgner, after having first been warned that I will be
liable for punishment for making a false statement, state herewith under oath,
of my own free will and without coercion, the following:
With reference
to my statement of 15 August 1945, which I made in English, I repeat my former
protest concerning other gentlemen. I had pointed out already that such part of
the statement as refers to the Hermann Goering works is not in accordance with
the facts, and that at any rate I was neither authorized nor competent to make
such statement.
As to the details of participations by I. G. Farben, as
far as Francolor, the eastern corporations [Ostgesellschaften], and
Norsk-Hydro are concerned, I can say this: |
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