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as a complete incorporation into the
Greater German economic system at the earliest possible time. On the
other hand, there must be removed from the territories of the
Government General all raw materials, scrap materials, machines, et
cetera which are of use for the German war economy.
Enterprises which are not absolutely necessary for the meager
maintenance of the naked existence of the population must be
transferred to Germany, unless such transfer would require an
unreasonably long period of time and would make it more practical to
exploit those enterprises by giving them German orders to be executed
at their present location."
Once the Government General had been stripped of its industrial
potential, the defendants planned to leave the country desolate. Not
even the war damage was to be repaired. This is the clear import of the
documents previously introduced and is likewise made clear by Document
Number EC-411, which, is Exhibit Number USA-299. I offer this document
in evidence. This document is a copy of an order dated 20 November 1939,
by Defendant Hess, in his capacity as Deputy Führer. This document
was also found in the captured OKW files. I quote the English and German
texts in their entirety. Defendant Hess stated, and I quote:
"I hear from Party members who came
from the Government General that various agencies, as for instance,
the Military Economic Staff, the Reich Ministry for Labor, et
cetera, intend to reconstruct certain industrial enterprises in
Warsaw. However, in accordance with a decision by Minister Dr. Frank
approved by the Führer Warsaw :shall not be rebuilt nor is it the
intention of the Führer. to rebuild or reconstruct any industry
in the Government General."
Turning
from the defendants' program of economic spoliation-in the Government
General to their program of deportation and resettlement, I next offer
in evidence Document Number 661-PS, which is Exhibit Number USA-300.
This is a secret report, prepared by the Academy of German Law in
January 1940, upon plans for the mass migration of Poles and Jews from
incorporated areas of Poland to the Government General and for the
forcible deportation of able-bodied Poles to Germany. This document was
obtained from the ministerial collecting center at Kassel, Germany. The
date does not appear in the English translation, but it is clearly set
forth on the cover page of the original document as January 1940. Before
quoting from this document, I ask first that the Tribunal take judicial
notice of the decree of 11 July 1934, embodied in the Reichsgesetzblatt,
Part 1, Page 605, 11 July 1934, which provided that the Academy of
German Law would be a public corporation