NMT01-T090
Volume I · Page 90
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 38
The necessity to expand all available forces to highest efficiency in the interest of the state requires, not only in peace time but also, and especially, in war time, the concentrated effort of scientific research and its channellization toward the, goal to be aspired.
Therefore, I commission the Reich Marshal Hermann Goering to establish as an independent entity a Reich Research Council, which is to serve this purpose, to take over its chairmanship himself and to give it a charter.
Leading men of science above all are to make research fruitful for warfare by working together in their special fields. The hitherto existing Reich Research Council which was under the Reich Minister for Science and Education [Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung] is to be absorbed by the new organization.
The means needed for research purposes are to be established in the Reich budget as far as they will not be raised from contributions (for research) of circles interested in research.
Fuehrer Headquarters, 9 June 1942
The Fuehrer
ADOLF HITLER
The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
DR. LAMMERS
