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TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NI-7569
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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| LETTER FROM DEFENDANT KRAUCH TO KEHRL, 13 JANUARY 1944, CONCERNING
THE EFFORTS OF THE KRAUCH OFFICE IN THE PROCUREMENT OF FOREIGN LABOR, PRISONERS
OF WAR, INMATES OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND RELATED MATTERS |
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| 18 January 1944 |
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| Distribution: |
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1. Addressee |
CK/G |
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2. Professor Krauch |
1364/43 |
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3. Dr. Ritter |
Your letter dated 22 December 1943 |
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4. Lt. Colonel Kirschner
5. Labor Allocation
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Your reference: RoA [Raw Materials Department]
00/22.2 |
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6. Dr. Adolf Mueller |
Labor Allocation |
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To the Chief of the Raw Materials Office in the Reich Ministry for
Armaments and War Production, President Kehrl
Berlin-Wannsee, Am Sandwerder
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Dear President Kehrl,*
In your letter, dated 22 December
1943, you pointed out the importance of close cooperation between your office
and mine with particular reference to the allocation of labor. Of course I
fully agree with your point of view. It is most gratifying to find that your
officials are giving strong support at the Armaments Office to my applications
for manpower for the execution of tasks formulated in close agreement with your
planning office. The aims of your Raw Materials Office are identical with
the endeavors of my office: to ensure that the chemical factories under my
supervision attain the highest possible level of production and that factories
under construction are completed and equipped as soon as possible.
Only
my office, however, is in a position to deal with the distribution of labor
allocated for the various sectors under my supervision, or with the allocation
to individual works of manpower demands made by the Wehrmacht, because this
requires detailed information about the plan as a whole and the position in
individual factories.
I was not aware of any misunderstandings or
even mistakes which are supposed to have occurred in the course of negotiations
conducted in the past directly between my office and the Armaments Office;
should matters of any importance be involved I should be obliged if you could
let me have further details.
May I be allowed to point out, however,
that the efforts of my |
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* Hans Kehrl was a
defendant in the Ministries Case. Kehrl was chief of the Planning Office of the
Central Planning Board, chief of the Planning Office of the Reich Ministry for
Armaments and War Production, and chief of the Office of Raw Materials in the
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production. See vols. XII-XIV, this
series.
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