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| Shale Research Company in order to guarantee the ability to operate
[Betriebsfaehigkeit], I have already disclaimed in the conference the immediate
taking over of the finished plants. On the other hand, however, I consider it
necessary to set a date on which the taking over by my company should take
place. For this reason, I have provided in the agreement, for the time being,
May 1945 as the deadline for taking over. It is understood that I shall agree
to a change of this deadline if it should become apparent that at that point
the technical conditions should indicate that a banding over of the plants by
Oil Shale Research Company to my company is inadvisable. |
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Heil Hitler!
(Signed) POHL*
SS Lt. General and Lt.
General of the Waffen SS |
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| Berlin, 11 September 1914 |
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Agreement between the Reich Office for Economic Development and the
Reichsfuehrer of the SS and Chief of the German Police, SS Economic and
Administrative Main Office [SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt]
Regarding
the desert ["Wueste"] program
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1. After the oil shale works are ready to operate, the safeguarding
of their ability to produce shall be a common task of SS and RWA [SS and Reich
Office for Economic Development]. The SS is represented by the German Shale Oil
Company [Deutsche Schieferoel G.m.b.H.], Erzingen near Balingen in
Wuerttemberg, which is under the supervision and administration of the
Reichsfuehrer of the SS, SS Economic and Administrative Main Office.
2.
Management, and connected with it technical responsibility, lies with the
German Oil Shale Research Company [Deutsche Oelschiefer Forschungsgesellschaft
m.b.H.] which has been charged with it by the RWA.
3. The German Shale
Oil Company shall aid the management to the best of its ability; in particular
inmates [Haeftlinge] will be furnished as laborers.
4. The Reich Office
grants the German Shale Oil Company an option to all ten plants of the "Wueste"
program which may not be exercised before 1 May 1945. It is left to the German
Shale Oil Company to decide whether it wants to exercise the option for all
plants or only for some of them.
5. As far as the option is exercised,
the plants will be transferred from the Reich Office to the German Shale Oil
Company. It is left then to the discretion of the German Shale Oil Company to
what degree it wants to make use of the cooperation of the German Oil
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* Pohl was the first-named
defendant in the Pohl case, Volume V, this series.
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