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Delegate General for Economy. Attached to the stock certificates were
dividend coupons numbered 1 to 4 inclusive which were due for the years 1938,
1939, 1940, and 1941. It was established that the price which the Krupp firm
paid for the shares did not cover the coupons which were due.
The
witness Hiep relates (NIK-13159, Pros. Ex. 793) — |
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“The Delegate General for
Economy demanded payment on all these coupons from the firm of Krupp who held
the shares. The purchase of the stock occurred at the end of 1941. I had no
authority to sanction this transaction. It was a matter for the competent Krupp
organs, i.e., of the main administration of ore mining, the legal department,
and of the Krupp Vorstand. If I remember correctly, negotiations were initiated
by Georg Ufer who at that time was the Balkan representative of the firm of
Krupp for such matters.” |
| In order to help the administrator out of his predicament, the Krupp
firm offered to pay 400 dinars per share additional to the German Delegate
General for the past due coupons and application was made by the Krupp firm to
the German Foreign Funds Control for permission to make this payment. In April
1943 the Plenipotentiary was still demanding payment although a special
stockholders’ meeting of the company revoked the previously declared
dividend of 400 dinars on coupons numbered 1 to 3, invalidated coupons number 1
to 4 inclusive, and declared a dividend of 525 dinars per share on coupon
number 5 for 1942 and the preceding years. The attitude of the Krupp firm
toward the Asseo family is demonstrated in the letter of Krupp employee Hiep in
a memorandum to the finance department then headed by defendant Janssen
(NIK-13158, Pros. Ex. 792) — |
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“* * * Neither can we
understand why G.B.W. (the Delegate General for Economy) a German official
agency after all is insisting so emphatically on the payment of 400,000 dinars
by us for the benefit of Jewish property.
“* * * In view of these
circumstances we would deem it proper for you to make another application to
the foreign exchange control office in connection with the 400,000 dinars, and
at the same time inform them confidentially of the above facts to induce them
to reject this application again.
“* * * It might also be that
settlement in our favor could be reached if the foreign control office inquired
from G.B.W. — why it attaches so much value to the retroactive payment in
favor of the Jewish Asseo estate * * *.” |
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