Industrial office

The industrial office was set up in the autumn of 1946 with funds from German heavy industry as an archive and documentation center in Nuremberg . It should help to facilitate and coordinate the defense and PR strategies of industry in general and heavy industry in particular with regard to participation in the financing of the NSDAP , Aryanization , looting in the occupied territories and forced labor .

Hermann Reusch , the chairman of Gutehoffnungshütte , collected a five-digit donation amount for the flick process and campaigned prominently for the opening of the office. Wolfgang Pohle and Walter Siemers were able to win over Heinz Nagel, a businessman and lawyer, who had collected documents on the Nuremberg trial against the head of the four-year planning authority Hermann Göring , as archive managers . The Law Institute of the University of Göttingen also made its collection of material on the Nuremberg Trial available. Large corporations from the Ruhr gave published and unpublished documents relevant to the defendantsNuremberg succession processes as well as lesser-known entrepreneurs should help with denazification procedures .

The collection of documents was the basis for numerous legal documents and affidavits. The lobbyist August Heinrichsbauer drew on this fund and published the apologetic work Heavy Industry and Politics promoted by industry shortly after the verdict in the Krupp trial .

literature

S. Jonathan Wiesen: The defense of the German economy: Nuremberg, the industrial office and the development of the new industrialist . In: NMT - The Nuremberg Military Tribunals between History, Justice and Righteousness . Ed .: Priemel and Stiller, Hamburger Edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-577-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Bähr, u. a .: The Flick Group in the Third Reich. Oldenbourg 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 619.
^ S. Jonathan Wiesen: The defense of the German economy: Nuremberg, the industrial office and the development of the new industrialist . P. 634 f.
^ S. Jonathan Wiesen: The defense of the German economy: Nuremberg, the industrial office and the development of the new industrialist . P. 635.

[1] Johannes Bähr, u. a .: The Flick Group in the Third Reich. Oldenbourg 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 619.

[2] S. Jonathan Wiesen: The defense of the German economy: Nuremberg, the industrial office and the development of the new industrialist . P. 634 f.

[3] S. Jonathan Wiesen: The defense of the German economy: Nuremberg, the industrial office and the development of the new industrialist . P. 635.