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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-8799
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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REPORT OF THE REICH OFFICE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
9/10 JUNE
1938, ENTITLED "SUMMARY OF THE PRODUCTION
PLAN FOR GUNPOWDER, EXPLOSIVES,
AND
CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS"¹ |
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REICH OFFICE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Summary of the
Production Plan for Powder, Explosives, Chemical Warfare
Agents, Including
Preliminary Products
Status as of 10 June 1938 |
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| [Stamp:] Top Secret |
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| Dept.
F [Research] 9 S |
Berlin 9/10 June 1938 |
| Dept.
P [Production] 9 S |
5 copies, 5th copy
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| [The distribution sheet of this document is marked "Top Secret." On
the distribution list of 5 copies, the defendant Krauch received the first copy
and the fifth went to Dr. Ritter, another official in the Krauch
Office] |
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Summary of the Production Plan for powder, explosives, and chemical
warfare
agents, including preliminary products |
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The graphs² show the present status in all fields. The figures
given refer to the capacities of the plants which will be ready for production
on the dates shown in the graphs. Present difficulties of delivery considered,
the completion deadlines can be met. It will be possible to accelerate the
execution of the production plan only if (as in the categories mineral oil and
rubber) a strictly uniform construction procedure is applied and the orders for
these plants are accorded priority (compare the special memorandum).
The present plan does not include capacity schedules for the Ostmark.
It can be expected that in this area 1,500 tons per month of nitrocellulose
and/or diglycol powder, as well as 1,000 tons per month of explosives (hexogen)
will have to be produced.
Details of the plan may be gathered from the
surveys. The measures to be carried out in the various fields may be summed up
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¹ In a report of the
Office for Military Economics and Armaments of the OKW of 15 July 1940, this
report was described as the basis for Goering's directives which led to the
"Karinhall Plan' of 30 June 1938, later commonly referred to as the Krauch
Plan. See Document NI-7835. Prosecution Exhibit
454, reproduced immediately above.
² The graphs were not offered in
evidence.
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