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| air forces on our country without the warning of a declaration of
war. We must take precautions that such a surprise attack will not be able to
paralyze us in fields which are important for existence and for carrying on
war. The measures necessary for this are an added burden which affects the
plants of the Four Year Plan in the same measure as the plants of the immediate
armaments industry. |
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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-7823
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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LETTER FROM THE OFFICE FOR GERMAN RAW MATERIALS AND
SYNTHETICS TO THE REICH MINISTER OF WAR, THE
MILITARY
ECONOMICS STAFF. THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE
ARMY,
THE REICH AIR MINISTRY, AND THE NAVAL ORDNANCE
OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMAND OF THE NAVY, 29
DECEMBER 1936, CONCERNING STOCKPILING OF
VARIOUS MATERIALS, STANDBY PLANTS,
AND RELATED PROBLEMS |
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[Stamp]
Top Secret |
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Berlin, 29 December 1936
Behrenstrasse
68-70
Telephone: A2
Flora 0048 |
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Minister President General Goering
Plenipotentiary for the Four
Year Plan
Office for German Raw Materials and Synthetics
Journal No.
14087 36 Dr. B/U. I/III |
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| [Stamp] Very urgent! |
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Reference:
Subject: Production program and stockpiling of
gunpowder, explosives,
chemical
warfare agents, and their primary products.*
[Stamp] Military Economics
Staff,
Raw
Materials Department
31
December 1936, 597
No. 4914/36 Top Secret |
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To the Reich War Minister, Military Economics Staff
High Command
of the Army (Wa. Stab, Wa B3, Wa B4, Wa |
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* See also the report of the
Reich Office for Economics Development, dated 8-9 April 1988, entitled
"Ensuring of Mobilization Supplies Through Stockpiling," (Doc. NI-7848. Pros.
Ex. 718), reproduced below in subsection, G 5 "the Krauch Office."
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