SECRET COMMAND MATTER
The Reich Marshall Enclosure No. 2
of the greater German Reich
Representative for the Four-Year Plan 7 September 1943.
—Office of the Economic Staff— 3 Leipziger Str.,
East Berlin, W. 8.
V.P. 11 207/6/3 gRs SECRET REICH MATTER!
40 copies/13th copy 8 supplementary copies 2nd supplementary copy
Concerning: The evacuation of the Harvest Crops and the Destruction of the Means of Production in the Agricultural and Food Economy in Parts of the Occupied Eastern Territories
By direction of the Fuehrer, I give the following order:
1. In the territories East of the line fixed by the highest military command, the following measures are to be taken gradually, according to the military situation at the time. The measures are -to be determined by the OB of the Army Groups :
1. All agricultural products, means of production and machines of enterprises serving the agricultural and food economy are to be transported away.
ii. The factories serving the food economy, both in the field of production and of processing, are to be destroyed.
iii. The bases of agricultural production, especially the records and establishments (storage plants, etc.) of the organizations charged with seizing the food economy are to be destroyed.
iv. The population engaged in the agricultural and food economy is to be transported into territory West of the fixed line.
2. The Chief of the Economic Staff, East, General of the Infantry, Stapf, is charged with the direction of the measures, as representative of the Economic Executive Staff. Execution takes place under the responsibility of the highest military command offices which are bound by the substantive orders of the pertinent departments of the Economic offices.
3. In the performance of his task, General Stapf is bound by the directives of the chief of the department of my office dealing with "Food", State Secretary Backe. He is entitled to give binding orders to all military and non-military offices for the purpose of executing his task and of receiving the transported goods in the occupied territories and in the war theater of Germany.
[signed]
GOERING
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Order for the removal of crops and agricultural equipment, the transfer of agricultural workers, and the destruction of remaining facilities east of an unspecified line in the occupied territories
Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
- Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
- Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)
Date: 07 September 1943
Literal Title: Concerning: The Evacuation of the Harvest Crops and the Destruction of the Means of Production in the Agricultural and Food Economy in Parts of the Occupied Eastern Territories
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 2
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-317
Citations: IMT (page 6225), IMT (page 6407)
HLSL Item No.: 452348
Notes:The boundary line for the removal/destruction operation was to be set by "the highest military command."