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few months have attempts been made to apply technical advances to the
old chemical warfare agents and to develop new types under the driving force of
industry, especially of I.G. (compare mixed mustard gas [Mischlost], N-mustard
gas, etc.).
In the interest of our defense, therefore, we consider it
expedient to set up the following organization at once:
A single
responsible office must be created on the pattern of the British Ministry of
Defense, which will decide all questions pertaining to research, planning,
financing, and contractual settlements, and supervise execution, and which will
be acknowledged as the voice of the Wehrmacht and of all competent Reich
Ministries.
This office should set up a supervisory board composed of
responsible representatives from the Army, the Reich Ministry of Finance, the
Reich Office for Economic Development, as well as from industry, which will act
as a preparatory committee to work out recommendations and submit them for
decision, in the same way as the "Defense Council" during the World War.
This board would guide research and determine planning, particularly
the priority of the projects.
The Defense Ministry would then make
arrangements for the financing and contractual settlement through the Ministry
of Economics. The putting into operation, the supply of raw materials,
allocation of labor, regulating of tariff questions, etc., would be effected
through the Office of the Four Year Plan, in other words, by the Reich Office
for Economic Development.
If German rearmament is to proceed with the
necessary speed and on the basis of national principles, we should deal with
one single, responsible office. |
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