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Having gained political power, the conspirators
organized Germany's economy to give effect to their political aims.
1. In order to eliminate the possibility of
resistance in the economic sphere, they deprived labor of its rights
of free industrial and political association as particularized in
paragraph (D) 3 (c) (1) herein.
2. They used organizations of German business as
instruments of economic mobilization for war.
3. They directed Germany's economy towards
preparation and equipment of the military machine. To this end they
directed finance, capital investment, and foreign trade.
4. The Nazi conspirators, and in particular the
industrialists among them, embarked upon a huge re-armament program
and set out to produce and develop huge quantities of materials of
war and to create a powerful military potential.
5. With the object of carrying through the
preparation for war the Nazi conspirators set up a series of
administrative agencies and authorities. For example, in 1936 they
established for this purpose the office of the Four Year Plan with
the Defendant Goring as Plenipotentiary, vesting it with overriding
control over Germany's economy. Furthermore, on 28 August 1939,
immediately before launching their aggression against Poland, they
appointed the Defendant Funk Plenipotentiary for Economics; and on 30
August 1939 they set up the Ministerial Council for the Defense of
the Reich to act as a War Cabinet.
(F) Utilization of Nazi control for foreign
aggression.
1. Status of the conspiracy by the middle of 1933
and projected plans.
By the middle of the year 1933 the Nazi
conspirators, having acquired governmental control over Germany, were
in a position to enter upon further and more detailed planning with
particular relationship to foreign policy. Their plan was to re-arm
and to reoccupy and fortify the Rhineland, in violation of the Treaty
of Versailles and other treaties, in order to acquire military
strength and political bargaining power to be used against other
nations.
2. The Nazi conspirators decided that for their
purpose the Treaty of Versailles must definitely be abrogated and
specific plans were made by them and put into operation by 7 March
1936, all of which opened the way for the major aggressive steps to
follow, as hereinafter set forth. In the execution of this phase of
the conspiracy the Nazi conspirators did the following acts:
(a) They led Germany to enter upon a course of
secret rearmament from 1933 to March 1935, including the training of
military