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loss, we take the liberty of asking you to inform us of what attitude
you advise us to take.
We are at your disposal to provide you with all
the information that you consider necessary for judging this matter.
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Yours truly,
M. DANBON |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NIK-6560
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM ALSTHOM TO OFFICE OF THE MILITARY COMMANDER IN FRANCE, 8
FEBRUARY 1944, INDICATING A DESIRE TO REGAIN POSSESSION OF THE BENDING MACHINE
AND REJECTING LATEST OFFER OF COMPENSATION |
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| Paris, 8 February 1944 |
Chief Intendant with the Military Commander in France
Paris
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Export Department
Sc/AR |
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| Subject: |
Compensation for confiscated bending machine |
| Reference: |
Az 58 b- R 4. |
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Gentlemen:
Pursuant to your letter of 7 January 1944, we
should like to call your attention to our observations of an earlier date and
particularly to the arguments which we presented to you at our meeting of 30
July 1943.
Above all we wish — as soon as circumstances permit us
to do so — to regain possession of a means of manufacture which is
indispensable to us, and, as we told you already at our first meeting on 14
August 1941 with the chief engineer Eisfeld, we are ready to accept the return
of the confiscated machine, while charging simply the cost of ultimate
reconditioning.
In the absence of such restitution, the figure which,
in our opinion, must be taken as the basis for fixing the value of the machine
is not that of its purchase value but of its utility value, locally, at the
date of the confiscation.
The new proposition which you have submitted
to us — and in connection with which we contacted the French Financial
Administration as you suggested — even though it is higher than the
preceding ones, is not satisfactory to us on that point. It should, therefore,
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