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| More extensive evidence on early considerations of military economy
and rearmament are reproduced in three other volumes of this series: "The Krupp
Case," vol. IX, section VI B, "Contemporaneous Documents concerning the Period
1919-1943," pp. 240-353; "The High Command Case," vol. X, this series, section
VI B, "Development and Activities of the German Armed Forces, 1919-February
1938," pp. 415-520; and "The Ministries Case," vol. XII, section VI B,
"Military Economy. The Four Year Plan. The Financing of Rearmament," pp.
421-656. |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-5982
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 68
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RELEASE NO. 1051 OF WOLFF'S TELEGRAPH BUREAU, 4 MAY 1933. REPORTING
UPON A RELEASE BY THE REICH ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN INDUSTRY AFTER A CONVERSATION
BETWEEN
HITLER AND GUSTAV KRUPP* |
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First Early Edition
84th year of publication No. 1051
Wolff's
Telegraph Bureau (WTB) |
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| Berlin, Thursday, 4 May 1933 |
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Declaration of the Reich Association of German Industry on the
reorganization and simplification of the industrial association system.
Berlin, 3 May. The Reich Association of German Industry announces:
Following an interview granted today by Reich Chancellor Hitler to the
Chairman of the Reich Association of German Industry, Dr. Krupp von Bohlen
und Halbach, and after Reich Minister of Economics Dr. Hugenberg appointed
Dr. Otto Wagener and Alfred Moellers, who are members of the Reichstag, as
Reich Commissioners for the Reich Association of German Industry and for the
rest of the economy, with the exception of agriculture, and furthermore, after
the nomination by Dr. Wagener of Dr. von Lucke as his deputy for the sphere of
the Reich Association, the Reich Association for German Industry published the
following declaration: |
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* Two earlier letters from
Gustav Krupp to Hitler concerning the reorganization of the Reich Association
of German industry, dated 4 and 25 April 1951, respectively, are reproduced in
"The Krupp case," vol. IX, pp. 340-343, this series. The Reich Association of
German Industry prior to Hitler was a voluntary organization whose members came
from all major fields of German industry.
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