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order to participate in certain conferences concerning purely
technical matters. In spite of that, he does not only protect the interest of
the firm against the exorbitant requests of the ministerial agencies, but also
his own opinion. From this, certain consequences result for the firm of Krupp
and for his own person of which he was conscious and which he accepted rather
than give up his conviction.
Thus, he was also brought into the
expansion projects in connection with the concentration camp Auschwitz, which
by the way never materialized. It will have to be shown that it was neither a
question of Dr. Mueller's great personal interest nor of Krupp's capitalistic
aims, but of the general compulsion by the State, to which he had to yield in
the same way as the Krupp management which had to fulfill the impositions by
the State.
6. The indictment especially connects Dr. Mueller with the
then head of the German Reich. I shall prove that Dr. Mueller’s role as
Hitler's “advisor on armament” did not exceed requested and given
information on purely technical matters, and at no time extended into the
sphere of politics or military tactics. In view of Dr. Mueller’s
extraordinary gift for technical matters and his lack of understanding of
politics and strategy it would have been strange, if it had been
different. |
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The indictment asserts that this defendant too participated in the so
called exploitation of the occupied territories. With regard to my client I
miss any specification whatsoever in this respect.
Therefore, I can and
have to refer within the scope of my presentation of evidence essentially to
the facts which had been discussed and proved in connection with the defendants
concerned with these problems. |
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By making much the same combination the prosecution now attempts to
make my client coresponsible for the execution of the so called slave labor
program in Krupp's enterprises.
Wherever State control over production
compelled Dr. Mueller to concern himself with questions relating to the
employment of workers, it was only in the form of passing on the State's orders
concerning the keeping up of production or increasing it.
The actual
handling of these questions was reserved to other agencies not subordinated to
Dr. Mueller.
Nevertheless, I shall show Dr. Mueller's fundamental
attitude to questions relating to the employment of foreign workers, pris-
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