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| 1. We are overpopulated and our country does not yield the food we
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5. It is, however, of no importance to state these facts again and
again, that is, to state that we need food or raw materials; what is decisive
is to take these measures which can bring a final solution for the
future and a temporary easing-up of conditions during the transition
period.
6. The definitive solution lies in an extension of our living
space, that is, an extension of the raw materials and food basis of our nation.
It is the task of the political leadership to solve this question at some
future time.
7. The temporary easing-up of conditions can be found only
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It is not enough to establish from time to time a raw material or
a foreign currency balance, or to speak of a preparation of the war economy
during peacetime, but it is necessary to provide all those means for peacetime
food supply and above all for warfare, which can be secured through human
energy and activity. Consequently I draw up the following program for a final
solution of our vital necessities:
(1) Parallel with the military and
political armament and mobilization of our nation must occur the economic one
and this at the same speed, with the same determination and if necessary with
the same ruthlessness. In the future the interests of individual gentlemen
cannot play any part. There is only one interest, and that is the interest of
the nation, and only one conception, which is that Germany must be brought
politically and economically to the point of self-sufficiency.
(2) For
this purpose, foreign currency must be saved in all those fields where needs
can be satisfied by German production, in order that it may be used for those
necessities which under all circumstances can be fulfilled only by imports.
(3) In this sense, the German fuel production must now be developed
with the utmost speed and brought to definitive completion within 18 months.
This task must be handled and executed with the same determination as the
waging of a war, since on its solution depends the future conduct of the war
and not on a stocking-up of gasoline.
(4) The mass production of
synthetic rubber must also be organized and secured with the same speed. The
affirmation that the procedures might not be quite determined and similar
excuses must not be heard from now on. The question under dis- […cussion]
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