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Dec. 45
The
table of contents, the Tribunal will see, is
divided into various sections, and Section I is
entitled "Assumptions." If the
Tribunal will turn over to the next page one
finds the assumption under the heading "Assumptions
I, frontier of Germany, see map, Enclosure 1.''
The Tribunal sees a reproduction of
that map on the wall and it will be seen that on
the 2d of May 1938, the Air Force were
envisaging Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary, all coming
within the bounds of the Reich. The original map
is here attached to this file and if the
Tribunal will look at the original exhibit, it
will be seen that this organizational study has
been prepared with the greatest care and
thoroughness, with a mass of charts attached as
appendices.
I would refer also to the
bottom of the second page, to the Tribunal's
copy of the translation:
"Consideration
of the principles of organization on the
basis of the assumptions for war and
peace made in Section I: 1) Attack
forces: Principal adversaries: England,
France, Russia."
And
it then goes on to say if all the 144 Geschwader
are employed against England, they must be
concentrated in the western half of the Reich;
that is to say, they must be deployed in such a
way that by making full use of their range they
can reach all English territory down to the last
corner.
THE PRESIDENT: It is perhaps
involved in the map. I think perhaps you should
refer to the organization of the Air Force, with
group commands at Warsaw and Königsberg.
LT. COL. GRIFFITH-JONES: I am much
obliged. Under the paragraph "Assumptions,"
Sub-heading 2, "Organization of the Air
Force in Peacetime," seven group commands:
l- Berlin, 2-Brunswick, 3-Munich,
4-Vienna, 5-Budapest, 6-Warsaw, and 7- Königsberg.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
LT. COL.
GRIFFITH-JONES: I am very much obliged. And
lastly, in connection with that document, on
Page 4 of the Tribunal's translation, the last
paragraph:
"The
more the Reich grows in area, and the
more the Air Force grows in strength,
the more imperative it becomes, to have
locally bound commands . . . ."
I
emphasize only the opening, "The more the
Reich grows in area, and the more the Air Force
grows in strength . . . ." Now I would say
one word on that document. The original, I
understand, is signed by an officer who is not
at the top rank in the Air Force and I,
therefore, don't want to overemphasize the
inferences that