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| the requests of the government, transferred a “part of the
production of ferrous wolfram, heretofore exclusively located in the danger
zone near Aix-la-Chapelle, to central Germany,” and built a “reserve
plant of considerable size”; extended “its installation for the
production of ferrous molybdenum”; and completed the stockpiling of an
additional amount of pyrites, “the basic raw material of sulphuric acid,
which is an indispensable chemical intermediate product” and which in
Germany “can only be produced in the danger zone.” In that report,
after the following comment as to the importance of gasoline,
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"The extraordinary significance
of motor fuel supplies is a result of the increasing motorization of the
Wehrmacht, the growing importance of the German Air Forces, almost unlimited in
its future development, and finally of the ever-increasing motorization of the
whole civilian transport system which would be endangered most seriously by a
motor fuel shortage," |
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“Among all the raw materials
under consideration, motor fuel furthermore holds a distinctive position,
because it needs to be immediately available for the conduct of
war.”
“So far the increase in production at Leuna” (a
Farben plant) “from hitherto 100,000 tons to a total of 300,000 tons in
the future has actually been realized." [EC-128, Pros. Ex. 716.] |
In 1933 Germany had withdrawn from the League of Nations, and in
1935, as stated by the International Military Tribunal, “the Nazi
government decided to take the first open steps to free itself from its
obligations under the Treaty of Versailles”; and on 10 March 1935,
“Goering announced that Germany was building a military air force,”
and 6 days later compulsory military service was instituted.
While
those significant political events occurred, Farben continued its energetic
cooperation. That cooperation between Farben and the government in the
rearmament of Germany became so extensive that in the latter part of 1935
Farben found it necessary to establish a Military Liaison Office in Berlin. The
defendant Krauch was active in the establishment of this office, known as the
Vermittlungsstelle W. Its purpose was to serve as an office of Farben for all
questions of military economy, of military policy, and of military technical
nature in connection with the planned development of the military economy. A
Farben report prepared by Dr. Ritter, representative of Sparte I in
Vermittlungsstelle W, dated 31 December 1935 [NI-2638, Pros. Ex. 140],
states the aim to be “The building up of a tight organization for armament
in the IG which could be inserted without difficulty in the existing
organization of IG and the individual plants." The ex- [...isting]
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