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the German Delegate General decided to forego any retroactive payments thereon.
The Krupp firm also desired to obtain 334 shares of stock of the Ljuboten
Mines. German officials were unwilling to take any immediate action in the
matter because of the plans being made to divide Yugoslavia among Germany,
Bulgaria, and Italy. A letter signed by Scheibe and Kyllmann on behalf of the
Direktorium of Friedrich Krupp A.G. and addressed to the Delegate General for
Economy in Serbia, copy of which was sent to Ufer, states, in part:
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“ * * * In this case it is
purely private share holding of the Yugoslav state in a mining company
established according to company law and to be judged on these grounds.
Two-thirds of its shares are in private hands and one-third in the hands of the
state * * * . The property of the former Yugoslav state, insofar as we are
concerned here, consists merely of a share in a private company formed
according to company law, for which in our opinion a provisional administrator
could and should be appointed without any further ado to facilitate acquisition
of these shares. The distribution of Yugoslav state property among the
successor states will not be affected in any way by such measures because the
sale to us of these shares representing enemy property through a provisional
administrator would not reduce the capital of the former Yugoslav state.”
“May we ask you in view of the foregoing points to investigate
once again the legal aspects of the matter which is of paramount importance to
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Although the Krupp firm's efforts were unsuccessful in this instance,
the facts are relevant in this case because they again reveal the intensity of
the spoliative designs of the Krupp firm, as well as the initiative and
pressure upon German government agencies which it exercised.
Finally,
in all, up to September 1944 the Krupp firm produced and sent to Germany
108,000 tons of Yugoslavian chrome ore. An appropriation of 957,500 RM was
approved by defendants Krupp and Loeser, 20 September 1941, for chrome mining
in the Skoplje area and the foundation of the German-Bulgarian Chrome Mining
Co. at Sofia with participation of the Hermann Goering Works and Friedrich
Krupp A.G. each 50 percent.
Again on 11 July 1942 an appropriation of 1
million RM was approved for the German-Bulgarian Chrome Mining Co. by the same
two defendants.
Defendant Krupp was the Vorstand member in charge of
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