. NMT06-T0245
Volume VI · Page 245
| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-3488 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 472 |
|
| LETTER FROM
GOERING TO DEFENDANT FLICK, 13 AUGUST 1937, THANKING FLICK FOR MAKING ORE FIELDS AVAILABLE TO THE HERMANN GOERING WORKS AND FOR DISTINCTIVE SERVICE IN INCREASING GERMAN ORE PRODUCTION WITHIN THE PROGRAM OF THE FOUR YEAR PLAN |
|
| Minister President General
Goering Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan |
|
| Berlin, 13 August 1937 | |
| Dr. Friedrich Flick
Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke Berlin W. 9 With satisfaction I took notice of the negotiations which have taken place between you and the Hermann Goering Works [Reichswerke] concerning your placing the ore fields at their disposal.¹ I am glad to hear that an agreement was reached which is satisfactory to both parties. I know that in contrast to other leaders of the German iron and steel industry you did your utmost to increase, within the program of the Four Year PIan,² the production and finishing of German ores and that you have thus facilitated the execution of my task. I thank you very much for it and express the hope that you will continue to serve the great task also in the future. |
|
| Heil
Hitler! [Signed] GOERING |
|
¹ Reference is made to the sale by Flick to the Hermann Goering Works of ore fields and installations in the Salzgitter area.
² Extensive evidence concerning the Four Year Plan is reproduced in the material on the I.G. Farben case, Volumes VII and VIII, this series; and in the Ministries case. Volumes XII-XIV. See particularly section VI B, "Military Economy — The Four Year Plan — The Financing of Armament", in Volume XII.
