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"1. Attempt to increase the
personnel strength of the Reich Navy.
"2. Contribution to the strengthening of patriotism among
the people.
"3. Activities of Captain Lohmann.
I am ashamed to say, if the Court please, that I
am not familiar with the story about Captain Lohmann.
"4. Preparation for the
resurrection of the German U-boat arm.
"5. Building up of the Air Force.
"6. Attempt to strengthen our mine arm.
"7. Economic rearmament.
"8. Miscellaneous measures: a. The N. V. Aerogeodetic; b.
Secret reconnaissance.
"III. Planned armament works countenanced by the Reich
Government but behind the back of the legislative body from 1928 to
the seizure of power in 1933.
"IV. Rearmament under the leadership of the Reich Government
in camouflaged form (from 1933 to the freedom from restrictions,
1935)."
Now if the interpreter who has the original
German volume will turn to Chapter IV, Page
75--"Aufrüstung"--Concealed rearmament under the
leadership of the Government of the Reich (from 1933 until military
freedom in 1935):
"The unification of the whole
nation which was combined with the taking over of power on 30 January
1933 was of decisive influence on the size and shape of further
rearmament.
"While the Reichsrat approached its dissolution and with-
drew as a legislative body, the Reichstag assumed a composition which
could only take a decisive attitude toward the rearmament of the
Armed Forces. The Government took over the management of the
rearmament program upon this foundation … "
Then a heading - "Development of the Armed Forces":
"This taking over of the management by the Reich Government
developed for the Armed Forces in such a manner that the War
Minister, General Von Blomberg, and through him the three branches of
the Armed Forces, received far-reaching powers from the Reich Cabinet
for the development of the Armed Forces. The whole organization of
the Reich was included in this work. In view of these powers, the
collaboration of the former inspecting body in the manage-