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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT EC-416¹
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 412
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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE MINISTERIAL COUNCIL,
4 SEPTEMBER
1936, AT WHICH GOERING READS AND
DISCUSSES HITLER'S MEMORANDUM ON
THE
FOUR YEAR PLAN |
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Minutes of Meeting of the Ministerial Council
of 4 September
1936, 12 Noon |
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Chairman: Minister President, General Goering
Reich War
Minister, Field Marshal von Elomberg Reichsbank
President and Acting Reich
and Prussian Minister of Economics,
Dr.
Schacht
Reich Minister of Finance, Count Schwerin von Krosigk
Prussian
Minister of Finance, Professor Popitz
State Secretary Koerner
The
Plenipotentiary for Economic Questions to the Fuehrer, Keppler
Ministerialdirektor Staatsrat Neumann
Staff Office Chief of the Reich
Peasant Leader, Dr. Reischle
Recording Secretary: Lt. Col, of the General
Staff, Loeb²
Minister President Goering: Today's meeting is
of greater importance than all previous meetings.
At the last Cabinet
meeting of 11 August 1936, it was agreed that supplementary material was needed
in order to make it possible to reach a decision.
Meanwhile new trouble
has arisen, especially in connection with nonprecious metals and rubber; even
the Fuehrer has been drawn into this affair.
In the discussion of 1
September 1936 it was stipulated that any trouble must be avoided before the
Party Congress. Privy Councillor Allmers had no authority for the letter in
which he speaks of a 2 to 3 day working week for the automobile industry. On 1
September 1936 temporary measures for the period lasting until the middle of
October, when a decision will be reached, were ordered and are to be carried
through.
In the same meeting, special attention was called to our
unpaid claims upon foreign countries which are presumably higher yet than the
reported claims; thus it is stupid to rack one's brain |
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¹ This document was
introduced in the Ministries case as Prosecution Exhibit 940 and is reproduced
in full in section VI B, volume XII this series. It was also introduced in the
IMT trial as USA Exhibit 635 and the German text is reproduced in Trial of the
Major War Criminals, volume XXXVI.
² Lt. Col. Loeb at that time was
the immediate superior of defendant Krauch in the Raw Materials and Foreign
Exchange Staff.
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