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into all of IG's affairs and he
thus could be of service to other people and authorities * *
*.” |
Several of the defendants were appointed to positions in the
propaganda organizations. The appointment of defendants Mann, von Schnitzler
and Gattineau to the Publicity Board of the German Economy was announced at a
meeting held at the Propaganda Ministry on 30 October 1933 [NI-1105, Pros.
Ex. 62] which was attended by Nazi officials and prominent representatives
of the Party and industry. The meeting was addressed by Funk, who had assumed
the chairmanship of the Board, and Goebbels who urged the participants to "go
ahead in the spirit of National Socialist vigor and conviction." In 1934
defendant von Schnitzler was selected a member of the Aufsichtsrat of ALA
[NI-880, Pros. Ex. 778], an advertising agency set up under State and
Party supervision.
In carrying out the propaganda program, defendant
Mann sent a circular letter to all of the Bayer representatives abroad
describing the achievement of the Nazi regime since its rise to power, and the
“miracle of the birth of the German nation” [NI-10267, Pros. Ex. 782];
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“In view of the boycott
propaganda abroad, which is still noticeable, although it has lost considerably
in intensity, we are particularly desirous of describing to you in detail the
actual conditions as they prevail under the new National Socialist government
in Germany. We wish to express the hope that this report will supply you with
important data, enabling you to continue to assist us in our struggle for
the German conception of law. We ask you expressly, in connection with your
collaborators and your personnel, to make use of these data in a manner which
appears appropriate to you, to the end that all coworkers of our pharmaceutical
business become familiar with these general economic and political
conceptions.” |
It was by such means that Farben undertook to direct its agencies and
personnel abroad to influence opinion favorably towards the Nazi regime and
thus help and support the furthering of the objectives of the Nazi program.
At a meeting of the Commercial Committee of Farben on 10 September
1937
[NI-4959, Pros. Ex. 353], attended by defendants
Schmitz, von Schnitzler, Haefliger, Ilgner, Mann and Oster, the organization of
Germans abroad (A. O.) was discussed. Minutes of that meeting state:
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“It is generally agreed that
under no circumstances should anybody be assigned to our agencies abroad, who
is not a member of the German Labor Front and whose positive attitude towards
the new era has not been established beyond any doubt. Gentlemen who are
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