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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT EC-278
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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DIRECTIVE OF FIELD MARSHAL GOERING CONCERNING THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES
GENERAL AND THEIR AUTHORITY.
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| [Stamp] Top Secret |
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[Handwritten] 124
Berlin, 16 July 1938
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Minister President Field Marshal Goering
Plenipotentiary for the
Four Year Plan
St. M. Dev. 1008 Rs
[Stamp]
WStb [Economics Staff] I
21 July 1938
File No. 1, No. 2219/38
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Armed
Forces High Command
21 July 1938
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| [Handwritten] 21 July [two illegible initials] |
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| The political situation, particularly the necessity for speeding up
the execution of the Four Year Plan and the readiness for mobilization compels
me, regardless of all objections, to appoint so-called Plenipotentiaries
General for various fields of special importance; * thus for example, I have
already appointed Brigadier General von Hanneken as Plenipotentiary General for
Iron and Steel Production and Allocation. The Plenipotentiaries General act on
my direct orders and therefore are covered by the full power I have been given
by the Fuehrer. They are entitled to take any measures in the specials fields
assigned to them and to provide all authorities and offices with the
instructions necessary for this. These instructions are to be carried out
immediately, for they are given on my orders. I therefore request all Supreme
Reich Authorities to see to it that the Plenipotentiaries General not only meet
with no resistance, but that every possible support is given them. |
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* The defendant Krauch
testified that he was appointed Plenipotentiary General for Special Questions
of Chemical Production (Gebochem) in July 1938. but that he never received "any
document" or "any written appointment" (Tr. pp. 5114-5115). A letter from the
Reich Minister of Economics to the defendant Krauch (NI 420. Pros. Ex. 463)
reproduced below in subsection G 5, speaks of a "decree of 22 August 1938
concerning the appointment of the Plenipotentiary General for Special Questions
of Chemical Production", but this decree was never found and hence was not
introduced in evidence.
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