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| F. Machinery of the ALSTHOM Firm in Belfort,
France |
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I. CONTEMPORANEOUS DOCUMENTS |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-13448
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM NORTHERN FRANCE ARMAMENT INSPECTORATE TO SCHMIDT, GERMAN
ARMY REPRESENTATIVE IN ALSTHOM PLANT, 16 APRIL 1941, STATING THAT GERMAN
MILITARY AUTHORITIES ORDERED THE TRANSFER OF A LARGE BENDING MACHINE TO
KRUPP’S PLANT IN RHEINHAUSEN |
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Armament Inspectorate C
(northern France) |
| Dijon, 16 April 1941 |
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Dept. Z. III Br. No. 19157/41 (H/A)
Az. 66 m |
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| Subject: |
Sheet-metal-bending machine with 9 meter bending length*
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| Reference: |
Chief Wi Rue Staff France, Dept. [Military Economics and Armament
Staff France] 2c As. 67 d 16, 59/11/41 of 5 April 1941. |
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Firm — ALSTHOM — for the attention of Director SCHMIDT,
Agent for the German Armed Forces |
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| Belfort |
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The Military Economics and Armament Staff France, with the agreement
of the Military Commander in France, has ordered that the sheet-metal-bending
machine with a maximum bending length of 9 m., which is with the firm ALSTHOM,
be removed and dispatched to the Friedrich Krupp firm.
Friedrich-Alfred-Huette, Rheinhausen.
An official confiscation
order will be handed to you by the Kreiskommandatur Montbéliard.
Ru In C (Armament Inspectorate C) will give you a receipt, on the basis
of which the firm ALSTHOM may validate its compensation
claims. |
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The Armament Inspector
signed
signature |
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* As the ensuing documents
show, two related machines were actually involved, a prebending machine
(weighing about 58 tons) and the main bending machine (weighing about 270
tons). However, both in the documents and testimony, the two related machines
are sometimes referred to as one machine and sometimes as two.
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