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with the second paragraph under (E), which is entitled, "The
Acquiring of Totalitarian Control in Germany, Economic, and the
Economic Planning and Mobilization for Aggressive War."
The second paragraph:
"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 rearmament program,
and set out to produce and develop huge quantities of materials of
war and to create a powerful military potential."
The fifth paragraph under that same heading (E), and the final
one in so far as my responsibility goes this morning, is that which
reads:
"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
establishedfor this purpose the office of the Four Year Plan with the
Defendant Göring as Plenipotentiary, vesting it with overriding
control over Germany's economy. Furthermore, on the 28th of August
1939, immediately before launching their aggression against Poland,
they appointed the Defendant Funk Plenipotentiary for Economics; and
on the 30th of August 1939 they set up the Ministerial Council for
the Defense of the Reich to act as a War Cabinet."
I will not take the time of this Tribunal to
prove what the world already knows: that the Nazi conspirators
rearmed Germany on a vast scale. I propose to place in evidence the
secret records of the plans and deliberations of the inner councils
of the Nazis, which prove that the reorganization of the German
Government, the financial wizardry of the Defendant Schacht, and the
total mobilization of the German economy largely under the Defendant
Schacht, Göring, and Funk, were directed at a single goal:
aggressive war.
I should like to hand to the Court at this point the so-called
document book, which contains the English translation of the original
German document. I do not make an offer at this time of these
documents in evidence, but hand them to the Court for the purpose of
easing the task of the Court in following the discussion concerning
these documents. I might say at this point also that I should like to
submit at a little later date a brief for the assistance of the Court
after I have concluded my remarks before it this morning.