Chief of Armed Forces In Reich War Ministry
Berlin W 35 The 14 June 1937 Jizpitzufez 72-76 Telephone Bi Kurfuerst 819
No. 1067/37 Top Secret L IV a
Subject: Cooperation of the Plenipotentiary General and the four year Plan for War Economy 3 Copies
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TOP SECRET
Most honored State Secretary,
As you already know, the President of the Reichsbank Dr. Schacht makes his exercise of his function as plenipotentiary General for War Economy, dependent upon an arrangement concerning the cooperation with the commissioner for the Four Year Plan.
I know that a necessary practical basis for it has been already found, and only a formal agreement is needed in order to carry on the common work.
I beg you now to speed up, if possible, this agreement with the President of the Reichsbank Dr. Schacht for the following reasons:
Because the President of the Reichsbank, Dr. Schacht is not exercising his office as the Plenipotentiary General the decisions on essential problems of mobilization and conduct of war remain unacted upon.
The special advisors of the plenipotentiary general can, without responsible leadership, do nothing else but raise objections against numerous projects of the Reich War Minister. At such a slow pace the complicated modern war instrument can not be prepared; to waste time in our situation would be the greatest reproach that history could make upon us.
May I beg, therefore, once more that the arrangement mentioned be expedited and that I be notified accordingly.
Heil Hitler
signed
Keitel
After dispatch Economic staff
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Letter to State Secretary Paul Koerner, requesting that an agreement between Schacht as plenipotentiary for war economy and Goering's Four Year Plan be formalized, so that Schacht can resume his work on mobilization and "the complicated modern war instrument"
Authors
Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal
- Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Military rank: general field marshal
- Military branch: artillery
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425
Date: 14 June 1937
Defendant: Hjalmar Schacht
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: EC-248
HLSL Item No.: 452731
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence in the trial.
Trial Issues
Administration & organization (all cases) Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Wars of aggression
Document Summary
EC-248: Letter re cooperation between Goering and Schacht