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and that therefore IG already
now, would lay claim to the acquisition of both works * * *. Before coming to
an understanding in regard to ownership, it would be necessary to maintain the
technical and commercial activity by expert commissioners, and these
commissioners can only be furnished by IG. In accordance with ter Meer I
proposed Dr. Carl Wurster for the technical part and Dr. Hans Kugler for the
commercial part. This program was accepted by both the Ministry of Economics
and the Foreign Organization of the NSDAP on behalf of which Mr. Schlotterer
himself (Ministry of Economics) could act.” |
| The Munich Pact was signed 29 September 1988, and Germany occupied
the Sudetenland pursuant to that pact. Farben's sympathy with the government's
policy at this time is evidenced by a telegram from defendant Schmitz to Hitler
[NI-2795, Pros. Ex,, 1046]
reading: |
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“Profoundly impressed by the
return of Sudeten-Germany to the Reich which you, my Fuehrer, have achieved,
the I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. puts an amount of half a million reichsmark at
your disposal for use in the Sudeten-German territory.”
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| There is in evidence a memorandum of the "Management Division Farben"
entitled "Preparations for the reshaping of the economic relations in
postwar Europe," dated 19 June 1940. In that memorandum it is said:
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“ * * * The Examining Board
of the chemical industry was commissioned by Mr. Schlotterer to submit to him
as soon as possible a survey of the chemical industry in the following
countries: France, Switzerland, England, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway. * *
*
“If Farben had any special suggestions to make with regard
to the lines on which the manufacture of dyestuffs was to be organized in
future in the countries in question, it would be useful if they would bring
them forward on this occasion. (It was stated in conference that Herr U.
remarked during the conference with Herr B. that European dyestuff production
after the war would probably be under the management of Farben). * * *
” |
| On 24 June 1040, defendant von Schnitzler wrote to several officials
of Farben, including defendants ter Meer and von Knieriem, especially asking
them to attend the meeting of the Commercial Committee to be held on 28 and 29
June in Frankfurt-on-Main, in which he said: |
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“* * * I include a copy of
the invitation for those gentlemen who, although not members of the Commercial
Committee are herewith cordially invited to be also present on 28 June. The
main topic of our conference, described under No. 1 of the agenda as
‘Report on Economic Policy’ (Wirtschaftspolitischer Bericht) is the
discussion of the problems of economic policy that were made
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