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assignment of numerous necessary officials
for the commissions. According to the present estimate there will be
four Reich commissions as approved by the Führer I shall propose
to the Führer for political and other reasons to set up a
suitable number of general commissions (24), main commissions (about
80), and regional commissions (over 900). A general commission would
correspond to a former general government; a main commission to a main
government.
"A regional commission contains three or four districts" —
Kreise — "In view of the huge spaces that is the minimum
number which appears necessary for a future civil government or
administration. A portion of the officials has already been requested
on the basis of the above-named command of the Chief of the OKW."
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Alderman, speaking for myself I don't understand why
it is necessary to read this document in full. You have already shown
that there was a plan for dividing Russia up into. a number of
commissions.
MR. ALDERMAN: Quite true. I should like merely to point out two of
three other individual defendants who are referred to in this document
and as to whom the document shows that they were in immediate complicity
with this whole scheme. The first of those, about three paragraphs
further down, the Reich Youth Leader-that is the Defendant Baldur Von
Schirach. Then of course Gruppenführer SS Heydrich, about the next
paragraph . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Well, he is not a defendant.
MR. ALDERMAN: No, Sir. His organization is, however, if the Tribunal
please, charged as a criminal organization.
In the next paragraph, the Defendant Ministerial Director Fritzsche,
who worked under Goebbels.
Without a long discussion of further evidence I might summarize the
individual implication in this fashion. Those of the individual
defendants now on trial which this report personally involves are
Keitel, Jodl Raeder, Funk, Göring, Ribbentrop, Frick, Schirach, and
Fritzsche. The organizations involved by this report include the,
following:
OKW, OKH, OKM, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Economics, Reich
Foreign Ministry, Propaganda Ministry, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of
Communications, the Reich Physicians' Union, Ministry of Munitions and
Armaments, Reich Youth Leadership, Reich Organization Leadership, German
Labor Front, the SS, the SA, and the Reich Press Chief.
At a later stage in the Trial, and in other connections, I should like
to ask the Tribunal to consider that that document with which