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The IG Farben Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal records contained on this website consist of tens of thousands of documents.

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General documents

• List of judges and counsels
• Minute Book
• Prosecution Exhibit Index
• Defense Exhibit Index
• List of Witnesses
• Progress Docket

Opening of the trial

• Introduction by Judge Curtis Grover Shake
• Calling of the defendants for arraignment

Opening statements

Opening Statements of the Prosecution

• Opening Statement of Chief of Counsel, Brigadier General Telford Taylor
• Count One: Plans, Preparation, Initiation of Invasions and Initiation and Managing of Aggressive Wars
  • Farben and the Establishement of the Third Reich
  • The years 1933 to 37
  • The years 1937 to 38
  • The year 1939 and after
  • Summary by General Taylor
• Count Two: Plunder and Spoliation
  • Poland
  • The Soviet Union
  • France
• Count Three: Slavery and Mass Murder
  • Farben and the Slave Labor Program
  • Farben at Auschwitz
  • Criminal Medical Experiments
  • Conclusion by General Taylor

Opening Statements of the Defense

• Opening Statement of Counsel for Dr. Carl Krauch
• Opening Statement of Counsel for Hermann Schmitz
• Opening Statement of Counsel for Dr. Fritz ter Meer
• Opening Statement of Counsel for Otto Ambros

Evidence

• Presentation of Evidence by the Prosecution, Part 1
• Presentation of Evidence by the Prosecution, Part 2
• Presentation of Evidence by the Prosecution, Part 3
• Presentation of Evidence by the Prosecution, Part 4

Witnesses

• Dr. Hans Wagner
  Chemist – Employee of I.G. Farben from 1928 to 1945
• Brigadier General John Hopman Morgan
  King's counsel and barrister of law
• Hermann von Hanneken
  Former employee of the Office of the Four Year Plan
• Nathaniel Elias
  Chemical Engineer
• Dr. Werner Hagert
  Chemist
• Paul Otto Schmidt
  Personal Interpreter for Adolf Hitler and Chief Interpreter in the Reich Foreign Office
• Karl von Heider
  Former employee of I.G. Farben
• Botho Alvin Mulert
  Reich Ministry of Economics, 1922 to 1944
• Felix Ehrmann
  Former Deputy of the Reich Plenipotentiary for Chemical Industry
• Lothar Mischke
  Employed in the Supervisory Office of Chemistry ["Prüfstelle Chemische Industrie"] from 1935 to 1945
• Helmut Deichfischer
  Former head of accounting in the Central Finance Office of I.G. Farben