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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-4043
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN SPEER, REICH MINISTER FOR
ARMAMENTS
AND WAR PRODUCTION, AND REICHSFUEHRER SS
HIMMLER, JULY 1944, CONCERNING THE
"N-PRODUCT AND
CONTAINING SPEER'S STATEMENT THAT "NOWADAYS WE
ARE
ENTIRELY DEPENDENT UPON THE WORK OF I.G.
FARBEN FOR CHEMICAL
PROGRESS" |
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| 1. Letter From Speer, 26 July 1944 |
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The Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production
370-929-44
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Top
Secret
Berlin, 26 July 1944
Pariser Platz
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To the Reichsfuhrer SS and
Commander of Replacement Army
Himmler
Berlin W 35
Dear Party Member Himmler,
At the
end of June, the Fuhrer referred to the insufficient tests of the "N-product"
[N-Stoff] * made by the Army Ordnance Office and told me about his intention to
transfer the responsibility for the production and the tests of the "N-product"
to the Waffen SS.
At that time, I convinced the Fuehrer that the
production should, for the time being, not be taken over by the Waffen SS, but
that it would be sufficient if the Waffen SS were to take over the testing of
the "N-product."
Even today, I would consider it a mistake if the
production of the "N-product" were to be taken over by the Waffen SS, because
after all, in Germany, there is only I.G. Farben that has available the
necessary specialists for the constant innovations in chemical processes.
I do, however, regret that within the framework of the Four Year Plan,
no competitive firm to the I.G. Farben Konzern was established, as was the case
with the Hermann Goering Works. This would have been easily possible at the
time when the numerous new plants of the Four Year Plan were established.
Nowadays, we are entirely dependent upon the work of I.G. Farben for
chemical progress. |
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* A type of poison gas. See
extracts from the testimony of defendant Ambros reproduced in section VII G 7
a.
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