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had seen that the machines were going to Rheinhausen. We were big
enough boys at that time to be able to read what it said on the freight cars.
So it wasn’t a mere accident that we approached Director Schmidt and
established the fact that our machines were at Rheinhausen and decided to
address ourselves to Krupp.
DR. BEHLING: I have no further
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| 3. EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENSE WITNESS ERICH THIESS*
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DR. WENDLAND (associate counsel for the defendant Loeser): Are you
still working at Krupp’s today?
WITNESS THIESS: Yes.
Q.
Where do you work?
A. Krupp-Stahlbau, Rheinhausen.
Q. What is
your position?
A. Commercial manager.
Q. How long have you had
this position?
A. Since 1 April 1941.
Q. In your activity as
commercial manager of Stahlbau Rheinhausen, did you ever have anything to do
with the dismantling of the sheet-metal-bending machine of the firm of ALSTHOM
and the setting up of this machine at the firm of Stahlbau Rheinhausen?
A. With the dismantling and the setting-up, I had nothing to do,
because it did not come within my sphere of activity.
Q. Did you
conduct negotiations about the purchase of the machine by Krupp?
A.
Yes. Yes, I did. During a later stage, after the technical experts had
negotiated, I was asked to participate in the negotiations at the beginning of
1942.
Q. Did negotiations concerning the acquisition of the machine
take place prior to that?
A. Yes.
Q. How did these first
negotiations go?
A. As far as I am informed, our plant manager,
Eisfeld, went to Belfort in the fall of 1941 in order to negotiate with the
French about the possibility of the purchase.
Q. When was that?
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* Complete testimony is
recorded in mimeographed transcript, 30 April and 1 May 1948, pp.
8407-6465.
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