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Testimony of Rudolf Euler, vice president of the directorate of the Metallgesellschaft company in Frankfurt am Main, regarding the Aryanization of the company, dated, 1947

Testimony of Rudolf Euler, vice president of the directorate of the Metallgesellschaft company in Frankfurt am Main, regarding the Aryanization of the company, dated, 1947 Establishment and administration of the Metallgesellschaft metal company (one of the largest in Germany) by Jews; Goering and others are interested in the company due to its status; status of the Jews in the company in 1933; process for the dismissal of the Jews from the company and the taking control over the company by the Germans; resignation of Heinrich Strauss, the company director, 1938; arrest of Alfred Petersen, 1938; escape of the remainder of the company's board members from Germany; taking over control of the company by Avieny, a protégé of the German Gauleiter; Rudolf Euler remains [in the company] due to his experience, despite his being married to a Jewish woman; dismissal of Euler from his position, 1942; resumption of the work of Euler and Petersen in the company following the liberation by the US Army in 1945; The testimony is part of the investigative material of the International Court of Law in Nuremberg; See the testimony of Alfred Petersen in file O.18/234.
item Id
5730475
Type of material
Investigation report
File Number
233
Language
English
Record Group
O.18 - Yitzhak Stone Collection of NS Documents
Date of Creation - earliest
10/01/1947
Date of Creation - latest
10/01/1947
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
5
Connected to Item
O.18 -Yitzhak Stone Collection: German documentation regarding German war crimes in the occupied countries
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection