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| the concern. It is true that in the course of the last years, for
many reasons, compulsory and otherwise, this principle was
ignored. |
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| I have carefully read each of the three pages of this declaration and
have signed them personally. I have made the necessary corrections in my own
handwriting and initialed them, and I declare herewith under oath that I have
given the pure truth to the best of my knowledge and conscience.
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| [Signed] DR. MAX ILGNER |
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EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT ILGNER,
18 MARCH
1948¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. NATH (counsel for defendant Ilgner) : I now come to the question
on Russia. Dr. Ilgner, did you have anything to do with the Russian problems
which have come up for discussion here?
DEFENDANT ILGNER: With the
exception of a few personnel questions in the summer of 1941, I had no official
contact with the Russian problems.
Q. On page 12, part II of the
Preliminary Memorandum Brief, the prosecution speaks of three documents,
Exhibits 1169, 1170, and 1171, in book 63, saying that the contents of these
documents, and I quote, “became general and common knowledge in
Germany.”² Did you, Dr. Ilgner, know these documents? Did you hear of
their contents?
A. No, I never knew them and I never heard of their
contents, but I have read them through here and I must say I am astonished at
the allegations of the prosecution. I shall quote only from Exhibit 1169, a few
headings: “Top Secret,” “Secret Reich Matter” — that
is something of the Reich Government, only for official use. In the same way,
the other two exhibits are secret official documents which, of course, were by
no means generally known. They could not be generally known. |
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¹ Further extracts are
reproduced above in subsection C 3 and earlier In sections IV D 2, VII D
4b and O 7c in volume VII, this series.
² All three of
these exhibits were secret directives concerning the economic policy to be
followed in the Occupied Eastern Territories. Prosecution Exhibit 1169,
Document Nl-6365, is an extract from a secret directive printed by the High
Command of the Wehrmacht in June 1941 before the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Prosecution Exhibit 1170, Document NI-6375, 1s a later supplement to
Prosecution Exhibit 1169. Prosecution Exhibit 1171, Document NI-440, concerns a
discussion held under the chairmanship of Goering on 8 November 1941. None of
these documents is reproduced herein. However, NI-6364 is an extract from
Document 1743-PS, and NI-6375 is an extract from Document EC-347, both of which
were introduced in the IMT trial and the German text of which is reproduced in
Trial of the Major War Criminals (EC-347 in vol. XXXVI, pp. 331-355 ; 1743-PS
in vol. XXVIII, pp. 3-15).
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