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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-11086
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM DEFENDANT KRAUCH, SIGNED BY WIRTH AS DEPUTY, TO DEFENDANT
AMBROS, 4 MARCH 1941, STATING THAT HIMMLER “AT MY SUGGESTION” AND
UPON INSTRUCTIONS FROM GOERING, HAD DECREED ON 26 FEBRUARY 1941, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, THAT JEWS BE REMOVED FROM AUSCHWITZ AREA FOR ACCOMMODATION OF BUNA
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND THAT SS LEADERS WERE ORDERED “TO AID THE
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT BY MEANS OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONERS IN EVERY
POSSIBLE WAY” |
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Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan
Plenipotentiary General
for Special Questions of Chemical Production
[Stamp]
Office Dr.
Ambros
Received: 7 March 41
No. 61 |
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Berlin, W. 9, 4 March
1941
Saarlandstr. 128
Telephone: 12 00 48
Teletype: K1-113
Cables: Gebechem |
[Stamp]
Top
secret |
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Ref: Chem. I–65 — Dr. Wh/Hu
Journal No. 1593/41 Top
Secret
Subject: Buna Works IV Auschwitz |
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| [Handwritten]
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| Copies to: |
Direktor Dr. ter Meer
Direktor Dr. Buetefisch
Senior Engineer Santo
Dr. Engineer
Duerrfeld
Senior Engineer Faust
Dr. Eisfeld |
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To the I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Attention
Direktor Dr. Ambros
Ludwigshafen/Rhein
At my suggestion and acting
upon instructions of the Reich Marshal,* the Reichsfuehrer SS, under date of 26
February of this year, has decreed the following: |
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* Goering's letter of
instructions to Himmler of 18 February 1941, Document NI-1240, Prosecution Exhibit 1417, is reproduced
above in this subsection.
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