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also a member of the Vorstand. If the amount exceeded 10,000 RM the
approval of defendant Alfried Krupp was also necessary.
The minutes of
the Vorstand meeting for 4 September 1940 shows the approval of an
appropriation of 186,000 RM for the purchase of a machine for the
Friedrich-Alfred-Huette firm at Rheinhausen. Whether this appropriation was
intended for the machines confiscated at the ALSTHOM plant in the early part of
1941 does not appear. It is apparent to us, however, from the credible evidence
that the matter received the attention of the Vorstand at various times from
the acquisition of the machine in 1941 until the liberation of Paris in June
[August] 1944, and that defendants Krupp, Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, and
Janssen are responsible for this confiscation and detention of these machines.
We conclude from the credible evidence that the removal and detention
of these machines was a clear violation of Article 46 of the Hague Regulations.
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| MACHINES TAKEN FROM OTHER FRENCH PLANTS |
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| The Krupp firm not only took over certain French industrial
enterprises. It also considered occupied France as a hunting ground for
additional equipment which was either shipped to the French enterprises
operated by the Krupp firm or directly sent to Krupp establishments in Germany.
The Krupp firm obtained this machinery from the local French economy, partly
through their own efforts, and partly through those of various government
offices. Some French machines were obtained from booty depots. Some were
directly requisitioned from French firms, with payment offered to the owners
after the confiscation. Some were purchased by Krupp through its
representatives in Paris, and some could only be obtained after negotiations
conducted by Krupp officials had been adequately backed up through the
intervention of German authorities. |
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| ROGES [RAW MATERIALS TRADING COMPANY] |
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In December 1940 the Raw Materials Trading Company which had been
referred to as ROGES was founded at the request of the German Army High
Command, the Economic and Armaments Office and the Reich Ministry of Economics
“whose desire it was to utilize the raw materials in the occupied
countries of western Europe and to accelerate their use in the German war
economy.”
Goods were obtained by ROGES in cooperation with the
German military and economic agencies which could be placed in two
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