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“A. I have answered this
question before. We did nothing officially, but unofficially various people of
the IG were talking to different men of the government. I was talking every
month and saying that this is an impossible thing. * * *” [NI-6768,
Pros. Ex. 437.] |
There is in the evidence a comprehensive report dated 27 June 1938
concerning the "program for the manufacture of chemical warfare agents and
explosives in Germany" [NI-5687, Pros. Ex. 438] and with particular reference
to the Farben production, made in compliance with the request from Krauch.
Krauch, on 30 June 1938, submitted to Goering an "accelerated plan for
explosives, gunpowder, intermediates and chemical warfare agents." This plan
[NI-8839, Pros. Ex.
439] was adopted by Goering but was soon supplanted by a plan drafted by
Krauch, dated 12 July 1938, called the Military Economic New Production Plan
[NI-8800, Pros. Ex.
442], also called the Krauch Plan or the Karinhall Plan, according to the
goal for the new production plan "set by the Generalfeldmarschall on 30 June
1938 in Karinhall."
This plan covered mineral oil, rubber (Buna) and
light metals in addition to gunpowder, explosives and chemical warfare agents.
The utmost acceleration of building and production projects keyed to definite
mobilization targets was provided in these plans. At a conference between
Goering and OKW at Karinhall on 18 July 1938 [1436-PS, Pros. Ex. 445], Goering said that the Four Year
Plan's function consists in preparing the German economy for total war in four
years; he also said that “In the event of ‘X-Fall’ and during
the War, ‘FYP’ will be continued with special emphasis on projects
essential to the War effort (production of buna, ore, fuels, explosives,
etc.).”
A document bearing that same date, to wit, 18 July 1938,
entitled “Measures in accordance with order dated 15 July 1938 for the
execution of the new military economic production plan” lists nine
different commissions given to Farben plants for the production of chemical
warfare agents and diglycol. [NI-7424, Pros. Ex. 444.]
On 22 July 1938,
defendant Krauch wrote a letter to State Secretary Koerner [NI-8840, Pros. Ex. 448]
stressing that industry was willing to take upon itself greater
responsibilities in the field of rearmament. In that letter, Krauch
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“ * * * the development of
the processing and creation of these materials [intermediate products for
gunpowder and explosives] is the concern of the industry * * * The
fertilizer nitrogen basis becomes at once, by its export decline in the case of
mobilization, the backbone of the whole of the nitric acids and of ammonium
nitrate * * * This applies particularly to the whole of the ethylene
chemistry which is inextricably bound up through
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