Cover letter to Rosenberg, with a report for Hess, on plans to train crews in military flying, and to eventually transfer them to the future air force

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A. Schickedantz (Rosenberg's chief of staff, 1932)

A. Schickedantz

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Date: 20 October 1932

Literal Title: Airforce-organization.

Defendants: Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg

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: PS-1143

Citation: IMT (page 420)

HLSL Item No.: 450610

Notes:Schickedantz was identified as the author of the letter in the trial transcript (page 420); he states that the report came from "the R.W.M." Another copy of PS 1143 was entered as US exhibit 40.

Trial Issues

Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) IMT count 2: crimes against peace (wars of aggression) (IMT) Wars of aggression

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

PS-1143: Letter, Arno [Illegible] to Rosenberg about a secret arrangement by the 'reich Wehr Ministry' to train flying personnel, and attached copy of the arrangement

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-1143: Letter from arno (schickedanz) to Rosenberg, 20 October 1932, with an agent’s report on the camouflaged training of military pilots within the framework of the " stahlhelm" organization

VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER Editor: Adolf Hitler
Central Organ of the National-Socialistic German Labor-Party
Berlin Editor
Berlin W.9, Linkstrasse.
20 Oct. 32 .
Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, M.d.R, Munich 13.
Dear Alfred:
I am sending you enclosed a communication from the R.W.M. forwarded to me by our confidential man [Vertrauensmann]
1143—PS
which indeed is very interesting. I believe we will have to take some steps so that the matter will not be procured secretly for the Stahlhelm.
This report is not known to anybody else. I intentionally did not inform even our own long friend. I am enclosing an additional copy for Hess, and ask you to transmit the letter to Hess, by messenger, as I do not want to write a letter to Hess for fear that it might be read somewhere.
With best regards.
Yours Amo.
AIR FORCE ORGANIZATION
Purpose: Preparation of material and training of personnel to provide for the case of the armament of the air force.
Entire management as a civilian organization will be transferred to Colonel von Willberg (at present Commander of Breslau) who, retaining his position in the Reichwehr, is going on leave of absence.
A. Organizing the pilots of civilian airlines in such a way as to enable their transfer to the air force organization.
B. Prospects to train crews for military flying. Training to be done within the organization for military flying of the Stahlhelm which is being turned over to Colonel Haenel, retired, all existing organizations for sport flying are to be used for military flying.
Directions on kinds and tasks of military flying will be issued by the Stahlhelm directorate.
The Stahlhelm organization will pay the military pilots MK 50 per hour flight. These are due to the owner of the plane in case he himself carries out the flight.
They are to be divided in case of non-owners of the plane between flight organization proprietor and crew in the proportion of 10 to 20 to 20.
Military flying is now paid better than flying for advertisement (40). We therefore have to expect that most proprietors of planes or flying associations will go over to the Stahlhelm organization. It must be achieved that equal conditions will be granted by the RWM, also the NSDAP organizations.
My own note: Hereby the entire organization of military flying is being turned over to the Stahlhelm.
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