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	PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-8800 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 442

THE NEW MILITARY ECONOMIC PRODUCTION PLAN OR THE "KARINHALL PLAN"*

Reich Office for Economic Development Division F [Research] Division P [Production]
Berlin, 12 July 1938
[stamp] Top Secret
10 copies, 8th copy

New Military-Economic Production Plan of 12 July 1938 for the Fields: Mineral Oil. Rubber, Light Metals, Gunpowder, Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents. The goal for the new production plan was set by the Field Marshal on 30 June 1938 at Karinhall. The following basic conditions should be observed for the individual categories: 1. Mineral oil. Development according to the original plan will be only slightly delayed in case the steel quota will be reduced for five months, from August to December 1938, inclusive. The new plan begins with an increased quota, as compared with the first half of 1938, effective as of the beginning of 1939. In order to carry out the mineral oil plan approximately 110,000 tons per month of steel — rolled or casting weight — will be required until the middle of 1942 (as compared with 60,000 tons per month thus far). The plan aims at the attainment of the following target for 1942/43 established by the Field Marshal:

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* General Thomas has written that this plan of 12 July 1938, was the "Karinhall Plan" (2353-PS Pros. Ex. 448. appearing immediately hereinafter). This was the pivotal plan for the production of all the products which fell within the competence of the Krauch Office: gun powder, explosives, chemical warfare agents, synthetic oil, synthetic rubber (buna), and light metals. This plan incorporated the earlier "Accelerated Plan" of 30 June 1938 (NI-8841. Pros. Ex. 440; and NI-8839. Pros. Ex. 439, appearing in this section) which dealt only with gun powder, explosives, and chemical warfare agents, and their preliminary products. The later "Rapid Plan'' of 13 August 1938 (NI-8791. Pros, Ex. 449, appearing hereinafter), was a modification for additional increase, in production capacities for gun powder, explosives. and chemical warfare agents. A number of later contemporaneous documents described the production plans for these various fields of production as the "Krauch Plan" (see, for example, NI-1217, Pros. Ex. 457 and NI-7291, Pros. Ex. 471, appearing later in this section). A report of the Krauch Office itself, dated 5 June 1943, declares that the New Military Economic Production Plan was "drawn up by the General Plenipotentiary for Special Questions of Chemical Production in the course of the Four Year Plan'' (NI-7562, Pro,. Ex. 590, reproduced in part hereinafter in the subsection on light metals).

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