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Preliminary Condition for Carrying out the New Military Economic
Production Plan.
Investigations thus far show that the new plan
can be carried out in principle. The necessary amounts of energy as well
as the required additional coal production must be made available by 1942/43
through systematic development. However, a preliminary condition is an
increase of the steel quota, beginning 1939, to the quantities as shown on
the comprehensive chart¹ (approximately 100,000 additional tons per month
for the next 3 years). For the fields gunpowder and explosives the increased
amount of steel must be made available immediately.
A
further preliminary condition is a basic special authorization, by which
this executing office retains for the individual project the possibility of
having its steel delivery take precedence over all other deliveries (except
munitions and direct Wehrmacht equipment), and of providing the necessary
engineers, chemists, and workers at the expense of less important projects.
If the two preliminary conditions cannot be fulfilled, then the
carrying out of the new military economic production plan of 12 July
1938 according to schedule is not possible. |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT 2353-PS 2
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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THE KARINHALL OR KRAUCH PLAN — EXTRACTS FROM THE
MANUSCRIPT
OF GENERAL GEORG THOMAS, ENTITLED
BASIC FACTS FOR A HISTORY OF THE GERMAN
WAR
AND ARMAMENTS ECONOMY" (1944) |
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XVII
Status of the war and armaments economy in 1939,
at the time of mobilization. |
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| During the rearmament period, preparations for the mass production
of munitions had been carried on only to the extent that the existing machinery
was used for supplying current and rearmament requirements. This was in no way
sufficient. The Military Economics Staff and the Army Ordnance Office had,
therefore, stressed in numerous memorandums (during the rearmament period), the
weakness of our armament production as far as munitions were concerned, but had
been always put off |
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¹ Not reproduced
herein.
² Further extracts from this document were introduced in the
Ministries case (Case 11) as Prosecution Exhibits 941 and 1049, and are
reproduced in section VI, vol. XII, this series.
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