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Member of Nazi Party; Captain of SA ("Sturmabteilung" of the Nazi
Party) ; member of German Labor Front; member of Nazi Automobile Association
(part of the SA) ; Military Economy Leader; member of Greater Advisory Council,
Reich Group Industry; deputy chairman, Economic Group Chemical Industry;
vice-president, Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce;
chairman, Council for Propaganda of German Economy; chairman of Aufsichtsrat,
Chemische Werke Aussig-Falkenau, Aussig, Czechoslovakia member of Aufsichtsrat,
Francolor, Paris; officer or member of Aufsichtsrat of other Farben affiliates
in Spain and Italy.
Detained in prison from 7 May 1945 to date.
WURSTER, CARL — Born 2 December 1900, Stuttgart. Doctor of
chemistry. For a brief period assistant in the Institute for Inorganic
Chemistry and Chemical Technology at Stuttgart Polytechnic. 1938-45, member of
Vorstand, Technical Committee, and Chemicals Committee; 1940-45, chief of Works
Combine Upper Rhine; chairman of Inorganics Committee and plant leader of the
Oppau plant, Ludwigshafen; member of Aufsichtsrat in several Farben concerns.
Member of Nazi Party and German Labor Front; Military Economy Leader;
collaborator of Krauch in the Four Year Plan, Office for German Raw Materials
and Synthetics; acting vice-chairman of Praesidium, Economic Group Chemical
Industry, and chief and chairman of its Technical Committee, Subgroup for
Sulphur and Sulphur Compounds; holder of the Knight’s Cross of the War
Merit Cross.
Detained in prison from 25 April 1947 to date.
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| COUNTS ONE AND FIVE |
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| Counts one and five of the indictment are predicated on the same
facts and involve the same evidence. These two counts will, therefore, be
considered together. Count one consists of eighty-five paragraphs. The criminal
charge is contained in paragraphs one, two, and eighty-five. The other
paragraphs are in the nature of a bill of particulars. We quote the three
charging paragraphs: |
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“1. All of the defendants,
acting through the instrumentality of Farben and otherwise, with divers other
persons during a period of years preceding 8 May 1945, participated in the
planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of wars of aggression and
invasions of other countries, which wars of aggression and invasions were also
in violation of international laws and treaties. All of the defendants held
high positions in the financial, industrial and economic life of Germany and
committed these crimes against peace, as defined by Article II of Control
Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered,
abetted, took a consent- [...ing] |
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