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| such correction. I do hereby declare under oath that the foregoing
statement is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me
God. |
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| [Signed] D. T. FROST |
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| Sworn to and signed before me this 16th day of July 1947 at
Nottingham, England. |
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[signed] Benvenuto von Halle
U. S. Civilian, AGO 53432
Interrogator |
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| F. Testimonies of Defendants |
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| 1. TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KRAUCH |
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| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT KRAUCH¹ |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
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DR. BOETTCHER (counsel for defendant Krauch) Now, the first question
in this new main subject, Doctor. The prosecution charges you, from your
activity during the war, that as Plenipotentiary General for Special Questions
of Chemical Production you participated in the slave labor program. How did it
come about that you, as Plenipotentiary General for Special Questions of
Chemical Production, had to deal with questions of labor?
DEFENDANT
KRAUCH: An important point in the development program of the Karinhall Plan 2
was, next to the procurement of material, also the making available of the
necessary experts and workers of the program. Just as in the case of material,
I had to express my expert opinion whether the requirements and the requests
that the various firms made to the offices were justified.
Q. Your
statement indicates that your activity as Plenipotentiary General was already
exercised before the war to a certain extent.
A. That is correct.
Q. For what reason did it become necessary that official agencies
should, already before the war, quite generally concern themselves with
questions of labor allocation?
A. Already before the war a scarcity of
skilled labor had arisen in various specialized fields in view of the manifold
programs that were present, so that in this field as well — as I was able
to point out this morning — the classification of certain priority stages
had already been executed, by reason of which the available manpower was dis-
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¹ Further extracts
from the testimony of the defendant Krauch are reproduced in subsections VII
C5a, F3, G7a, H4a, 17a, L3a, N5b, above, volume VII, this series.
²
Concerning the Karinhall or Krauch plan, see subsection VII G, volume VII, this
series.
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