. NMT02-T0444
Volume II · Page 444
| 2. THE CENTRAL PLANNING BOARD |
| EXCERPT FROM THE STATEMENT
OF THE PROSECUTION REGARDING MILCH'S ACTIVITY IN THE CENTRAL PLANNING BOARD, 6 JANUARY 1947 * |
| MR. DENNEY: We come now to the part of the
proof which places the defendant in the very center of the Slave Labor Program.
We have shown that from the outset of the war and prior thereto, he was thoroughly informed of the Nazi plan for total war, which contemplated the full use of all human material resources within the homeland. We will show he was active in the formation and announcement of decisions of the Central Planning Board. We will show the Board exercised jurisdiction in the matter of procurement, allocation, and use. He carried out the master plan for requisition, allocation, and use of human raw material for the war machine. There are words we will have by necessity to repeat as we introduce the documents — requisition, allocation, and use. Our evidence will show that Milch, a member of the Central Planning Board, belonged to an organization — and here again we have another important word "belong". He was one of two most essential men in the Planning Board that guided the decisions of that organization. We will present to the Court excerpts from the minutes of some 12 conferences at every one of which Milch was present, starting with the first held in April 1942 and ending with the fifty-eighth held in May 1944. Actually, he was at all but eight conferences, and we use the figure "eight" advisably. We are not sure, he may have been in some of those. There is no question that he was in every one of those meetings which we introduce here. On occasions when Speer was not present Milch presided. We will show he actively participated when the Central Planning Board arrived at decisions with respect to the request, allocation, and use of this labor. We will show he was active in the formation of the announcement of decisions of the Central Planning Board. We will show the Board exercised jurisdiction in the matter of procurement, allocation, and use of labor. And all of them were prisoners of war and were allocated to the German war effort. Requisition, allocation, and use were the dominating voice. Decisive influence, active participation, forced labor, illegal occupation — these are the words with which we are concerned, and these are the things with which he concerned himself. |
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Tr. pp. 161-162.
