HIS ALLIED FRIENDS
GERMAN BUSINESS MAN'S PROFESSIONS
LONDON, April 17. Dr. Ge.org yon Schnitzler, a director o± the I. G. Farbenindustrie Chemical concern, was pleased to see the Americans when he was captured on the Western Front. He told United States officers that he was looking forward to visiting America very soon so that he coud jsee "his friends the Dv Ponts." Schnitzler mentioned several other heads of well-known firms in the United States and Britain whom he described as intimate friends. He had been living at a farm near Frankfurt-qn-Main. When American officers visited him he was wearing fine Scottish tweeds and English brogues. He said he regretted that the records of the Farben works in Frankfurt—the biggest chemical and explosives plant in Germany—had been destroyed. He declined to go to his office to give certain information which the Allied authorities wanted, because it was "such a long way" and he was "getting old." The Americans solved the argument by sending a sergeant with a jeep and a tommy gun to fetch him. When Schnitzler arrived he bowed and said: "Gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure to be working with you again."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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193HIS ALLIED FRIENDS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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