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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT EC-282
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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EXTRACTS FROM WORK REPORT OF DR. C. KRAUCH,
PLENIPOTENTIARY
GENERAL FOR SPECIAL QUESTIONS
OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTION OF MINISTER PRESIDENT,
FIELD MARSHAL GOERING, SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL
COUNCIL OF THE FOUR
YEAR PLAN, 28 APRIL 1939* |
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Berlin, 20/21 April 1939
[Handwritten] Draft |
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| [Stamp] Top Secret |
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WORK REPORT OF DR. C. KRAUCH, PLENIPOTENTIARY
GENERAL FOR SPECIAL QUESTIONS OF CHEMICAL
PRODUCTION OF MINISTER PRESIDENT, FIELD
MARSHAL GOERING, SUBMITTED TO THE
GENERAL
COUNCIL OF THE
FOUR YEAR PLAN |
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General Definition of Aims
On 30 June 1938 the Field
Marshal, at a meeting in Karinhall, explained the outlines and targets set for
the German production. The targets for military economic production were fixed
for the sphere of mineral oil, rubber, light metals, as well as for gunpowder,
explosives and chemical warfare agents.
Mineral oil, rubber, and light
metals are definite and strictly defined fields of production. Gunpowder,
explosives, and chemical warfare agents, on the other hand only constitute the
final products of complicated chemical syntheses, which in turn, require a
great number of important preliminary and auxiliary products. An expansion plan
for gunpowder, explosives, and chemical warfare agents therefore affects the
whole of chemistry and requires a corresponding expansion plan for the various
branches of the chemical industry.
To illustrate the proportionate
expansion of the construction work required, the increase of the individual
production, from the status in 1938 until the final target is achieved, is
shown in brief.
Mineral oil. An increase of output from 2.4
million tons (purely production out of German raw materials without refining)
in 1938 to 13.8 million tons to cover the demand in case of mobilization is
demanded as the final target. The drawing-up of the plan showed that a capacity
of approximately 8.3 million tons could be reached in 1942/43, and
approximately 11 million tons in 1944. The |
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* This document was relied
upon greatly by the prosecution. Paragraph 32 of the indictment is given over
to it entirely. The decision of the Tribunal deals with it at some length. The
defendant Krauch's testimony on this report appears later in this section (tr,
pp. 5100 and 5101, 5134 ad 5135).
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