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| of Alfried Krupp, von Buelow, and others, including Fritz Mueller who
was at the time a member of the Vorstand but who is not to be confused with the
defendant [Erich] Mueller. A few days later Fritz Mueller in a note to
Schroeder acknowledged receipt of the report and made the following comment
(NIK-13222, Pros. Ex. 771): |
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“Attached the Yugoslavia
report with many thanks returned. It is so interesting that I should like to
ask you to let me have a copy for handing on. For foreign oil questions I am
the representative of the Security Service of the SS and as such have already
short-circuited (?) the Security Service with Mr. von Buelow. Your report I
would send to the competent man at the Security Service in Berlin, SS
Sturmbannfuehrer Baubin, c/o Reichswerke Hermann Goering, Berlin * * *.”
(The Security Service was declared a criminal organization by the
IMT.) |
| As has been seen in the other countries which were previously overrun
by the German Army, there was extremely close co-operation between the Krupp
firm and the Reich governmental agencies immediately following the invasion.
This team work is even more pronounced prior to and after the invasion of
Yugoslavia. I quote at length from a very enlightening affidavit of George
Ufer, a Krupp employee who was able to serve two masters, the Reich government
and Krupp, during the occupation of Yugoslavia (NIK-13330, Pros. Ex.
775): |
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“In May 1940, 1 was hired by
the Krupp firm as assistant to the manager of Yugochrom which was being founded
at that time. The Yugochrom was a foundation which was financed 50 percent by
Krupp and 50 percent by the Hermann Goering Works. My task as a mining expert
was to examine geologically chromium ore mines, the acquisition of which was
possible, and to run those chromium ore mines in Yugoslavia that had been
acquired.
“At the end of February 1941, about 5 weeks before the
Germans marched into Yugoslavia, I was asked by the German consul general in
Belgrade, at that time Neuhausen, to come to his office. There I was informed
by the consul general, that I had to leave for Berlin immediately on a very
urgent matter, and that I had to report to the economic and armament department
of the Supreme Command of the Army (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), Berlin,
Kurfuerstenstrasse. Neuhausen told me that he had received instructions by wire
from Berlin to inform me about this urgent trip to Berlin. Thereupon I took
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