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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-7848
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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REPORT OF THE REICH OFFICE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CONCERNING
THE INSURING OF MOBILIZATION PROVISIONING
BY STOCKPILING, APRIL 1938
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| No. 73 entered 28 September 1938 |
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| [Handwritten] note on distribution list |
| [The distribution list shows copies going to the defendant Krauch,
Dr. Ritter, Col. Loeb, Major Czimatis, State Secretary Koerner (permanent
deputy of Goering as Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan), and
others.] |
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| Reich Office for Economic Development |
| 8/9 April 1938 |
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| [Stamp:] Top Secret |
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Division F [F = Forschung (Research)]
Division P [P =Produktion
(Production)] |
| 6 copies, 6th copy |
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Insuring of Mobilization Supplies Through Stockpiling *
(Increased Imports) |
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Contents:
I. Basic ideas
II. Individual surveys of
the various raw material fields. (Iron ores and mineral oil not investigated.)
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1. Steel-refining (alloy) metals.
2. Non-ferrous metals.
3. Iron pyrites, rock phosphate.
4. Stones
and earths.
5. Rubber.
6. Industrial oils and fats, resins.
7.
Leather (skins and tanning materials).
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III. Summary of the proposals
I. Basic ideas
Assuming that additional means of payment in the form of
foreign exchange can be made ready, it was necessary to investigate what
measures are to be taken in order to ensure mobilization supplies through
additional imports and stockpiling of vital raw materials from abroad.
In order to determine the mobilization requirements it was |
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* An earlier contemporaneous
document on stockpiling of gun powder, explosives, chemical warfare agents, and
their preliminary products, Document NI-7823,
Prosecution Exhibit 717, is reproduced above in subsection F, "The Four Year
Plan." See also the materials reproduced below in subsection I, "Stockpiling,
Storage of Materials, and Dispersal of Production."
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