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| has been done at other plants, should not submit lists with proposals
concerning workmen and clerks about to be engaged. These would be taken into
consideration wherever it was found practical. Following this, the new
regulations concerning the employment of members of paramilitary
organizations were discussed, and it was agreed that it should be a matter
of course, when engaging new people, to give preference to members of
paramilitary organizations, if they otherwise fill the
requirements. |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-4718
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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LETTER FROM DEFENDANT KRAUCH TO MILCH, 14 SEPTEMBER
1933,
TRANSMITTING A TREATISE ON GERMAN MOTOR FUEL
ECONOMY AND PROPOSING "A FOUR
YEAR PLAN" FOR THE
EXPANSION OF PRODUCTION¹ |
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Stamp: Registered Mail
Stamp:
File
[Handwritten]
Miscellaneous Reich Air Ministry |
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To: State Secretary Milch,²
Air Ministry Berlin,
Behrenstr. |
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| 14 September 1933 |
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Dear Mr. State Secretary,
I take the liberty of sending you
enclosed a treatise [handwritten marginal note: not with copy] on the German
motor fuel economy, which we have compiled after an exhaustive study of the
situation on the German motor fuel market. The text deals solely with the
manufacturing aspects, taking into consideration also the capital investments
and the possibilities of providing employment. We have not discussed in detail
the problems of selling and distribution, because they have already been
thoroughly dealt with elsewhere.
In order to arrive at a clear-cut
production program, a four year plan³ is laid down in the treatise as the
basis for the expansion of production. It will, of course, be easily possible
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¹ An exchange of
letters between Milch and Defendant Krauch in July 1933, which was a part of
this same exhibit, is reproduced later in this subsection.
² Milch was
sole defendant in
The
Milch case," vol. II, this series. He was charged with war crimes and
crimes against humanity and convicted for his participation in Germany's
slave-labor program. Extracts from Milch's testimony as a defense witness in
the Farben case are reproduced in sections V B 1 above and VII C a below.
³ This was the first reference in the contemporaneous documents to a
"Four Year Plan" so far as has been discovered. The memorandum referred to was
not a part of the document introduced in evidence. The Four Year Plan,
initiated in 1936, is the principal subject of subsection G, below, "The Four
Year Plan."
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