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2. AFFIDAVIT AND TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE
WITNESS KURT BIEGI
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TRANSLATION OF
EBERHARDT DOCUMENT 200
DEFENSE EXHIBIT
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| AFFIDAVIT OF KURT BIEGI, FORMERLY CHIEF OF KRUPP-ELMAG ADMINISTRATIVE
DEPARTMENT, 30 MARCH 1948, CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF ELMAG PLANTS DURING GERMAN
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I, Kurt Biegi, born 28 August 1904 at Bamberg, resident Bamberg,
Hauptwachstrasse 11, former Prokurist with the ELMAG Werke Elsass, Maschinenbau
G.m.b.H. (ELMAG G.m.b.H.) at Mulhouse/Alsace, now business manager of the
Suedwerke G.m.b.H. at Bamberg, which is the legal successor of the ELMAG
G.m.b.H., know that I render myself liable to punishment by making a false
affidavit. I declare on oath that my statements are true and were made in order
to be submitted as evidence to the Military Tribunal at the Palace of Justice
Nuernberg.
In view of my having belonged to the Krupp Motor Vehicle
Department since 1935, I am generally informed about the history of the
transfer of this motor vehicle department from Essen to Mulhouse in
Alsace and from there to Franconia [central part of Bavaria] and am able to
give, in outline, the following description of this matter:
The Motor
Vehicle Department of the firm Friedrich Krupp in Essen (Krawa) was destroyed
by air attack on 5 and 12 March 1943. Pursuant to a transfer order by the Army
High Command, work was started at the end of March/beginning of April on the
moving of the Krawa plant to the premises of the “ELMAG Elsaessische
Maschinenbau A.G.” (ELMAG AG.) in Mulhouse. Side by side with this
transfer of the technical plant, negotiations initiated by the Armed Forces
High Command on occasion of their transfer order concerning the conclusion
of a lease agreement were also conducted between the firm of Krupp as
leaseholder and the firm ELMAG A.G. as lessor.
The ELMAG A.G. had the
following history:
In Mulhouse, Alsace, there existed a
“Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques”
(SACM), which in peacetime had worked on the production of textile machines and
other machines. After the occupation of the Alsace by German troops and after
the appointment of a German Chief of the Civil Administration in Alsace, this
French corporation was placed by the latter under the management of two German
commissioners, Mr. Dalmer and Dr. Schumacher. Temporarily also a Mr. Ochel is
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