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FILE NAME: WR Grace (WRG) DATE: 1949 DOC#: WRG008 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: 1949 Nuernberg Military Tribunals partial translation w *.~**u /03/1895 08:01 6173564887 SSHC TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE THE NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNALS UNDER CONTROL COUNCIL LAW No. 10 ( PAGE 01 >11/03/1995 08:01 6173564887 5SHC PAGE 02 "The Farben Case" Military Tribunal VI * Case 6 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- against-- Carl K rauch, Hermann Schmitz, Georg von S chnitzler, F ritz Ga jew sk i, Heinrich H oerl e in , A ugust von Knieriem , F ritz ter Meer, ( Christian Schneider, Otto Ambros, Max Brueggemann, Ernst Buergin, Heinrich B uetef isc h , P aul H aefliger, Max Ilgner, F riedrich J a eh n e , Hans Ku eh ne, Carl Lautenschlaeger, W ilh elm Ma n n , H einrich Oster, Karl W ur ster, Walter Duerrfkld, Heinrich Gattineau, E rich von der Heyde, and H ans Kugler, officiais of I.G. F arbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Dfendants III 674059 PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-14543 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 198& EXTRACTS FROM FASBEN-AUSCHWITZ WEEKLY REPORT NO. 11, FOR THE PERIOD 3-9 AUGUST 1941, CONCERNING CONFERENCES WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP ON ASSIGNMENT OF INMATES, DIFFICULTIES IN UTILIZING INMATES, PROCUREMENT OF BARBED WIRE AND OTHER MATERIALS FOR A FENCE AROUND THE ENTIRE CONSTRUCTION SITE, REQUEST THAT FLOGGING OF INMATES BE TRANSFERRED FROM CONSTRUCTION SITE TO INSIDE OF CONCENTRATION CAMP, AND OTHER MATTERS I. G. Fatbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft Auschwitz (Upper Silesia) Works Auschwitz 9 Aug. 1941 Fst/Go Weekly Report No. 11 fo r the period, 3-9 August Preliminary Report Various conferences with the commandant and his assistants about the assignment of inmates have taken place. As you know, the as signment of two more, guard companies have been refused. Through the intervention of the Rcichsfuchrer SS, it has now been ordered that all concentration camps are to detach 7f> guards for duty at Auschwitz. Of this number, 40 have already arrived during the week covered by this report. In this way, it is possible for the concentra tion camp to assign another 1,000 inmates in addition to the 816 already employed at present. Of coarse, this could not he done from one day to tire next. In any case, it was possible to increase the num ber of inmates employed from 800 to 1,000 as of Friday, 8 August 1941. During the course of next week, approximately another 700800 men are to be assigned, if possible. The assignment of inmates is causing difficulties, because due to the lack of guards-- 1. They can always only be assigned in groups of at least 20 or more. The consequence of tills is that., in some places, they are work ing together so closely that they are hindering each other. That is just a fundamental difference between the working methods of a concentration camp and of a free enterprise. The concentration camp has no need to consider economic principles but in free enterprise this must be done; particularly, when it is a case of firms working at stand ard rates. This is not always sufficiently taken into consideration and recognized by the officials of the concentration camp. 2. The ininalcs can only ntarcli out in daylight and must return to the camp in daylight. If it is foggy in the morning, the inmates are nlso not permitted to leave the camp. Therefore it is not pos- ZRrqQP/TO t q :sg ctci/coyrr aible to employ the inmates on shift work ; they can only be considered for the day shift. The conditions will naturally improve once the construction site has been fenced in. The preparations for this have been made so that the fencing can be done by the end of the month. I t is now planned to use concrete posts, which are. being made in the concentration camp, and barbed wire and wire nettiig, which wc are obtaining from the wire drawing mill in Gleiwitz. : We have furthermore drawn the attention of the officials of the concentration camp to the fact that, in the last few weeks, the inmates are being severely flogged on the construction site by the Capos in increasing measure, and this always applies to the weakest inmates cjrho really cannot work harder. The exceedingly unpleasant scenes kthat occur on the construction site because of this arc beginning to 'have a demoralizing effect on the free workers (Poles), as well as on dhe Germans. We have therefore asked that they should refrain from Niafrying out this flogging on the construction site and transfer it So the inside of the concentration camp. BE; * * * * * * [Stam p] juna Auschwitz .Dr. Ambros Dr. Buetefisch/Dr. v. Staden Santo Dr. Mach Dr. Eisfeld Dr. Duevrfeld Faust Heidcbroek ^[Handwritten] Certified Engineer Rasch 3HS S PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT Nl-15254 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 2206) ACTS FROM FARBEN-AUSCHWITZ WEEKLY REPORT NO. 13 FOR DTHE PERIOD 17-23 AUGUST 1941, CONCERNING DIFFICULTIES WITH fpOLES AND ETHNIC GERMANS, PUNI5HMENT BY ASSIGNMENT TO [CONCENTRATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ FOR 2 MONTHS, AND RELATED ^MATTERS ^Weekly Report No. 13 for the period from, 17 to S3 August 1941 o Er'* * * * * * * OJ Qibout 40 leading officials of the authorities took part in this cou- Bsnce; that is, representatives of all the ngencies located in Bielitz local court, provincial court, post office, chamber of commerce, lord themselves were by far the biggest enterprises in the chemic domain in Germany. * * * It has always been characteristic of the German chemical industry that there was. on one side this huge conglomeration of industrial power called IG, and,| on the other hand, an extremely great number of small enter prises split over the whole country * * * It is not only that new inventions of outstanding importance were practically alon$ made by IG and that research work on a large scale was ex| clusively done by IG, but that the real importance of IG in he capacity as a supplier of all basic products to the other chemfca industries was even higher * * * Taken together with the ove: whelming position IG has in the field of photographic product and the strong majority in nitrogen, one has to make the stak ment that chemistry in Germany and IG are to a great exte synonymous." Farben's factories and technicians were one of the two gre industrial resources of Germany, the other being the coal min| and steel plants of the Ruhr. It is no coincidence that Lude dorff consorted with Duisberg and Krupp von Bohlen, and famous German diplomat Stresemann once rhetorically asked defendant von Schnitzler: "What have I as a trump in my hand apart from you, the IG, and the coal people?" Carl Duisberj played a leading part in the establishment of the nationwid organization of industrialists, the Reichsverband der Deutscha Industrie [Reich Association of German Industry]. The chaiij manship of this organization was usually held by Farbeu Krupp officials. Relations between Farben and the Ruhr hea^ industries were reasonably close; Farben owned coal mines held stock interests in the big steel enterprises, and the defenda Schmitz sat on the Aufsichtsrat of the huge German steel con bine, the Vereinigte Stahlwerke. But the German iron lords never achieved the complete uni| which the chemical leaders brought about through the Farb merger, and there can be little doubt that Farben was the powerful single industrial combine in Germany and, indeed,; Europe. It produced all of Germany's magnesium, nickel, met] nol, and synthetic rubber, and nearly all of its dyestuffs. It pij duced the bulk of Germany's nitrogen, synthetic gasoline, numerous important chemicals. It produced half of Germanjj pharmaceuticals and more than half of its photographic suppli Tt dominated the German explosives industry. It enjoyed cloi relations with the German Government long before Hiller ca to power; the defendant Schmitz was a close associate of Cha 11/03/1995 08:01 6173564887 SSHC r Bruening, and another Farben director, Warmbold, became liter of Economics. n the laboratories of Farben, many amazing experiments were g carried to successful conclusions. New inventions and 'esses poured forth in a never-ending stream; most of them of inestimable actual or potential value to mankind. And, before Hitler achieved notoriety, Farben officials were ling with two problems, the successful solution of which u!d go far to make Germany economically self-sufficient, and pendent of imports in time of war. One of these was the ufacture of synthetic rubber which, by 1932, had not yet 'seed beyond the stage of promising experimental production, ut the other was solved soon after the merger of 1926, through famous Farben hydrogenation process by which Germany's could be transformed into oil, gasoline, and other' synthetic and lubricants. The tremendous significance of this dis- is eloquently reflected in a letter written at that time, 926, by Frank Howard, an official of the Standard Oil Com- of New Jersey, to its president, Walter Teagle, from which ote: ."Based upon my observations and discussion today', 1 think t this m atter is the most important which lias ever faced company since the dissolution.* _f"The Badische"--the reference being to one of the Farben lories--"can make high grade motor oil fuel from lignite other low quality coal in amounts up to half the weight of coal. This means absolutely the independence of Europe ithe matter of gasoline supply. Straight price competition all that is left * * * r`I shall not attempt to cover any details, but 1 think this will :evidence of my state of mind." do not stress these circumstances because any social or ic questions, such as the limits, if any, which should be on the size of corporations, are in any way germane to case. They are not. But the size of the Farben empire and strategic importance of Farben techniques must be grasped Jer to understand the significance of the events which took during the period covered by the indictment. Farben was ?'s greatest single industrial resource. Countless other rles were entirely dependent on Farben products. Farben 'ques held the key to many of the problems which the iaeht wished to solve. The Germany economy could not . #*fre>ee, presum ably, Is to be dissolution of th e original S ta n d a rd Oi) Com pany ht American a n ti* tru st la-wt.