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sent abroad should be made to
realize that it is their special duty to represent National Socialist Germany.
They are particularly reminded that, as soon as they arrive, they are to
contact the local or regional group (of Germans abroad) respectively, and are
expected to attend regularly at their meetings as well as at those of the Labor
Front. The Sales Combines are also requested to see to it that their agents are
adequately supplied with National Socialist literature.
“Collaboration with the A. O. (Organization of Germans abroad)
must become more organized. * * *” |
| At a meeting of the Bayer Board of Directors held at Leverkusen on 16
February 1938 [NI-8428,
Pros. Ex. 803] presided over by defendant Mann, he affirmed the favorable
attitude. The minutes of the meeting state: |
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“The chairman points out our
incontestable being in line with the National Socialist attitude in the
association of the entire ‘Bayer’ pharmaceutica and insecticides;
beyond that, he requests the heads of the offices abroad to regard it as their
self-evident duty to collaborate in a fine and understanding manner with the
functionaries of the Party, with the DAF (German Workers’ Front), et
cetera. Orders to that effect again are to be given to the leading German
gentlemen so that there may be no misunderstanding in their
execution.” |
Pursuant to such instructions, representatives of Farben abroad
cooperated actively with the foreign organizations of the Nazi Party. Reports
were made by those representatives to Farben of the various schemes and
projects undertaken, which were approved and ratified.
During a trip to
South America in 1936, defendant Ilgner was especially effective in developing
a program of “Defense Against Fostering of Anti-German Sentiments in Latin
America,” as reported by a representative in a letter dated 27 January
1937 [NI-070, Pros. Ex. 790]. The program included the distribution of
propaganda material through Latin America Chambers of Commerce, branches of
German banks and other representatives of German economy. Other devices
contemplated were the use of film, propaganda schools, and radio, the exchange
of students, business men, scientists and artists, all as a means of carrying
on “important propaganda work towards Germany.” Farben gave financial
support to schools and cultural institutes abroad as well as chambers of
commerce promoting the propaganda program. The activities of Farben with
reference to affairs in Czechoslovakia in 1938 are particularly significant as
revealed by the minutes of the Conference on Czechoslovakia held on 17 May 1938
at Unter den Linden 82. In the minutes of that meeting [NI-6221, Pros. Ex. 883],
it is said: |
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