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[change…] over of the navy from low pressure steam or engine
installations to high pressure steam turbines on certain fleet units. After
other shipyards had received contracts for the testing of experimental high
pressure turbines a considerable period before, the Germaniawerft succeeded,
without special preparations, in placing the first vessels with high pressure
turbines at the navy’s disposal on the basis of the Germaniawerft’s
experiences. We refer here to the heavy cruiser “Prinz Eugen,” with
turbines of this type, which has since been shown to be a complete success.
Work on the West Wall
Within the scope of
the fortification program which the Army Ordnance Office had urged for years,
our firm took a decisive role in the equipment of the West Wall. As the events
of the first year of the war necessitated an accelerated completion of the West
Wall we considered it as one of our most important assignments to further this
work by all the means at our disposal. This consisted mainly in an accelerated
preparation of the already poured, but empty, concrete works for battle,
installation of internal equipment, and substitution of improvised embrasure
ports with the final ones. Through complete use of our already heavily occupied
plants, and the useful and energetic work of our mechanics on the spot, we
succeeded in appreciably shortening the long fixed deadlines. |
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| 2. EARLY RELATIONS WITH LEADERS OF HITLER’S THIRD
REICH |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT D-203*
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| EXTRACTS FROM A REPORT OF SPEECHES BY HITLER AND GOERING TO GERMAN
INDUSTRIALISTS ON 20 FEBRUARY 1933, FOUND IN GUSTAV KRUPP’S FILE,
“PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 1933-1934” |
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| With the year 1918, an entire system collapsed. That it had to come
about was often predicted, also by economic leaders, especially by Geheimrat
Kirdorf. The revolution which the year 1918 brought us was only conditional. In
any case it did not bring about the revolution such as in Russia, but only a
new school of thought which slowly initiated the dissolution of the existing
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* Complete document is
reproduced in “The Farben case” where it was received in evidence as
Document D-203, Prosecution Exhibit 37, United States vs. Carl Krauch,
et al.. Case 6, vols. VII and VIII, this series.
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