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| A letter of the same context was sent to the SS. We stated that in
case of noncompliance with this proposition on the part of the employees of the
I. G. Farben, all employees would have to take the consequences. The sole
result of this letter was that a search for its writer was instituted. I have
carefully read the affidavit consisting of three pages and countersigned it
with my own signature. I have made the necessary corrections in my own
handwriting and countersigned them with my initials. I hereby declare under
oath, that I have made this statement according to my best knowledge and belief
and said nothing but the pure truth. |
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| [Signed] ARNOST TAUBER |
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| Sworn to and signed before me this 3d day of March 1947 at Prague by
Arnost Tauber known to me to be the person making the above affidavit.
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[Signed] BENVENUTO VON HALLE
U. S. Civilian AGO D 432532
Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes U. S. War Department
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| b. Extracts from the Testimony |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF ARNOST TAUBER¹ |
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DIRECT EXAMINATION
MR. MINSKOFF: Mr. Tauber, will you
state your name for the record? Your full name.
WITNESS TAUBER: Arnost
Tauber.
Q. Your residence?
A. Prague.
Q. And nature of
your employment at the present time?
A. I am a civil servant of the
Czechoslovakian Foreign Office.
Q. With respect to the affidavit
[Document NI-4829, Prosecution Exhibit
1455]² that is presently before this Court and which was signed by you on
3 March 1947, do you have any corrections you wish to make on it?
A.
Yes.
Q. Will you state those, please?
A. I want to point out
that under paragraph 3 of my affidavit where, in the second to the last
sentence, I speak of an extra allowance of eight grams of margarine, eight
grams is a typographical error and should be corrected to read: “an extra
allowance of about twenty five grams” which corresponds to about one-half
tablespoon. A further correction in paragraph 5, where I speak of the fact that
I myself was |
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¹ The complete
testimony is recorded in the mimeographed transcript 7, 12 November 1947, pages
3535-06.
² Reproduced immediately above.
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