of original German documents, orders, directives, instructions, decrees, and so forth, coming from military chiefs of various ranks and titles.
Meanwhile, to finish with the "Green File," I may in conclusion state that this striking document is conclusive evidence of the remarkable qualifications for plunder and vast experience in brigandage of the Hitlerite conspirators. conceived on a wide scale and elaborated in detail by the conspirators, began to be put into practice literally from the very first days of the attack on the USSR. formed for this purpose, an apparatus consisting of all kinds of "agricultrual leaders," "inspectors," "specialists in economies," "technical and intelligence batallions and companies," "economic groups and detachments," "military agronomists," and so forth, the so-called "material interest" of the German soldiers and officers, who received unlimited possibilities for robbing the civilian population and sending their booty to Germany, was all widely encourage by the Hitlerite government and the Supreme Command of the German Army. villages of the occupied territories of the USSR and the mass removal to Germany of the personal property of Soviet citizens, and also property collected from cooperative and state farms, and property of the State, was carried out wherever the German Fascist aggressors appeared, according to a plan thought out well in advance. ment documents on this question.
Notes of the Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs:
A few months after Hitlerite Germany's treacherous attack on the USSR, the Soviet Government had already received the series of incontrovertible data about the war crimes committed by the Hitlerite armies in the Soviet territories occupied by them.
a note of the Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Molotov, dated the 6th of January 1942. a few excerpts from this note which have a direct bearing on the subject of my presentation. You will find the paragraphs underlined on page 99 of the reverse side:
"Every step of the German Fascist army and its allies on the occupied Soviet territory of the Ukraine and Moldavia, Byelo-Russia and Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia, the Karelo-Finnish territory and the Russian Districts and regions is marked by the ruin or destruction of countless material and cultural values."
The last paragraph of this quotation:
"In the villages occupied by German authorities the peaceful farming population is subjected to unrestrained depredation and robbery. The farmers are deprived of their property, acquired by whole decades of persistent toil, deprived of their houses, cattle, grain, clothing -- of everything, down to the last little shirt of their children and the last hadful of grain. In many instances the rural population, including old people, women and children, are driven out of their dwellings by the Germans as soon as they occupy the village, and are compelled to seek shelter in mud huts, dugouts, the forest, or even under the open sky. In broad daylight the invaders strip the clothing and footgear from anyone they meet on the rood, including children, savagely illtreating those who try to protest or offer any kind of resistance to such highway robbery.
"In the villages of the Rostov and Voroshilovgrad Regions in the Ukraine now freed by the Red Army, the farmers were plundered time and time again by the invaders as successive German army units passed through the given locality and each unit renewed the searches, lootings, and executions for failure to deliver up provisions. The same thing took place in the Moscow, Kalinin, Tula, Orel, Leningrad, and other regions, from which the remnants of the German troops are now being driven by the Red Army."
note, and only in my own words shall report to the Tribunal. A whole series of concrete established facts of the looting of the peaceful population of different regions in the Soviet Union are being quoted in this note, and the names of the victims of these lootings are directly quoted in this. Since all these cases are very similar one to another, I will limit my presentation only by a short quotation from this note of Commissar Molotov. book.
"The marauding proclivities of the German officers and soldiers have spread to all the Soviet areas they have seized. The German authorities have legitimatized marauding in their armies and encourage looting and violence. The German Government sees in this practice the realization of their bandit principle that every German combatant must feel "a personal interest in the war." Thus, in a confidential order of July 1, 1941, addressed to all commanders of propaganda squads in the German army and discovered by Red Army troops when they routed the 68th German Infantry Division, explicit instructions are given to 'foster in every officer and soldier of the German army the feeling that he has a material interest at stake in the war.' Orders of the same kind instigating the army to mass looting and murder of the civil population are issued by the armies of the countries fighting on the side of Germany as well.
"On the German-Soviet front, and especially at the approaches to Moscow, more and more Fascist officers and soldiers are appearing dressed in pilfered clothes, their pockets crammed with stolen goods and their tanks stuffed with women's and children's wearing apparel that they have tom from the bodies of their victims. The German army is becoming more and more an army of ravenous thieves and marauders, who are looting and sacking flourishing towns and villages of the Soviet Union, ravaging and destroying the property and belongings of the laboring population of our villages and towns, the fruit of its honest toil. These are facts testifying to the extreme moral depravity and degeneracy of the Hitlerite army, whose looting, thievery and marauding have earned it the contempt and wrathful execrations of the whole Soviet people."
the information which continued to come in regarding the crimes committed by the German Fascist armies, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Molotov, published for the second time a note on the monstrous crimes, atrocities and acts of violence of the German Fascist invaders in the occupied Soviet areas, and the responsibility of the German Government and military command for these crimes.
THE PRESIDENT: General, what do you mean by "published?"
MR. SHEYNIN: What I mean is that this note was first sent to all the governments with whom the USSR Government maintained diplomatic relations, and, furthermore, the text of this note was published in the Soviet official press. as USSR Exhibit 51. I also, in very brief form, shall read a few excerpts from this document which have a direct bearing on the subject of my presentation.
THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps we had better adjourn now, and you can read it after the adjournment.
(A recess was taken until 1400 hours).
THE MARSHAL: May it please the Court: I desire to announce the defendant Streicher will be absent on account of illness.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn.
(A recess was taken)
THE PRESIDENT: Owing to the delay the Tribunal will sit until half past five tonight without further adjournment.
COLONEL SHEYNIN: I had been reading into the record excerpts from a note, and in order to save time in presenting this information I shall try to quote only the few most essential excerpts from this note.
I read the following excerpts. The last paragraph on page forty-four of my presentation in Russian.
The appendix to Special Order No. 43761/41 of the Operative Department of the General Staff of the German army states:
"It is imperative to acquire clothing through compulsory imposition on the population of the occupied regions, resorting to any means for this purpose. It is most essential to appropriate wollen and leather gloves, coats, vests, and scarves, padded vests and trousers, leather and felt boots, and puttees." instructions of the Command.
"Property such as scales, sacks, grain, salt, kerosene, benzine, lamps, pots and pans, oilcloths, window blinds, curtains, rugs, phonographs, and records must be turned into the Commandant's office. Persons guilty of violating the present order will be shot."
In the town of Istra, Moscow Region, the invaders "confiscated" New Year's tree ornaments and toys. In the Shakhovskaya railway station they organized the "delivery" by the inhabitants of children's underwear, wall clocks and samovars. In the districts as yet under the rule of the invaders, the searching and plundering of the population, already reduced to pauperism by the acts of banditry which have not ceased from the very first hour of the appearance of the German troops, are still continuing."
last paragraph.
"The universal nature of the brigandage planned by the Hitler government, on which the German Command is endeavouring to base the supply of its army and rear, is characterized by the following facts: In only 25 districts of the Tula Region the invaders appropriated from Soviet citizens 14,048 cows, 11,860 hogs, 28,459 sheep, 213,678 chickens, geese and ducks, and destroyed 25,465 beehives." from twenty-five districts of the Tula Region, Your Honors. crimes and cases of plunder committed by the Hitlerites on Soviet soil. documents from which you will see how the German Commanders and officials themselves characterized their soldiers' behaviour. the effect that German soldiers and officers should not be hindered in their marauding activities. It is natural that under these conditions the moral disintegration of the German-Fascist armies should reach its culminating point. Things reached such a point that the Hitlerites began to plunder each other in accordance with the well-known Russian proverb "A thief stole a cudgel from a thief." as USSR-285? Here is an extract from a report of the German District Commissar of Zhitomir to the Commissar-General of Zhitomir dated the 30th of November 1943. You will find the document to which I refer on page ninetythree in the document book, and I read:
"...already before the German administration left Zhitomir, it could be observed that the troops stationed there broke into the apartments of Reich Germans and appropriated everything that was of any value. Even the personal belongings of these Germans still working in their offices was stolen. When the town was recaptured it was established that the German lodgings were hardly touched by the local population, but that the troops which had just begun to enter the town had already started to pillage the billets and factories ..."
I read the second excerpt from the same document:
"The soldiers are not satisfied with taking all useful equipment, but they partly destroyed the remaining items; used valuable furniture for fires; although there was sufficient cut wood...." German District Commissar of the town of Korostyshcv to the Commissar-General of Zhitomir. The members of the Tribunal may refer to the excerpt on page 94 in the document file.
"...the behavior of German soldiers, unfortunately, was bad. Unlike the Russians they broke into the storehouses even when the front line was still far away. Grain, including the stocks of seed, was stolen in enormous quantities. That might have been tolerated with regard to combat units....Upon the return of our troops to Popelnaya, the storehouses were broken into immediately. 'Gebitz' and 'Kreislandwirt' nailed up the doors again, but the soldiers, however, broke in once more."
I read into the record other excerpts from the same document:
"...The 'Kreislandwirt' reported to me that the dairy farm was plundered by retreating units."
And the second excerpt:
"Thus the cooperative store was plundered in the presence of Ukrainians, and soldiers, among other things, took with them also all the cash in the store...."
Then the third excerpt:
"...On the 9th and 10th of this month the guards of the field-gendarmer:
were posted at the cooperative store. These guards could not resist the onslaught of the soldiers...."
And the last excerpt:
"...Pigs and fowls were slaughtered in the most irresponsible manner and taken away by the soldiers. The troops themselves presented a disastrous appearance." characterized by a German Commissar himself in his official report. so as it is very colourfully supplemented by an official report of the German "Ukrainian Company for Procuring Supplies for Agriculture," addressed to the Commissar-General of Zhitomir. Here is how this report describes the results of a raid by German soldiers on the company's premises:
"...The Office was in an incredible and devastated condition."
Second excerpt: "...A private house on the Hauptstrasse No.57 (20 rooms) bore a terrifying appearance. Carpets and mats were missing, and there were no more upholstered armchairs and couches or beds with spring mattresses, chairs, or wooden armchairs."
I skip a few lines. The condition of all those residential buildings is hard to describe, and I omit two more excerpts from the document and continue.
Such, your Honors, is the "cry of the heart" of the German brigands of the "Company for the Economic Mastery of the Ukraine", who in their turn complain about the brigands in the German Army. Korostyshov that such occurrences took place, I shall quote yet another report, this time by the Commissar of the Kazatinsky district, which literally states the following, and I quote:
"...The German soldiers stole food, cattle, and conveyances." no less significant details.
"Threatening him with a pistol, the Lance Corporal demanded the keys of the barn from the District Commissar. In reply to my statement that the "keys were in my pocket, he yelled 'Give me the key', dragged out the pistol, stuck it against my chest, and shouted:
'I shall shoot you -- you are a saboteur', and added a few more swearwords to his remark. He forcibly searched my pocket and seized the key, saying 'I alone give orders. You Sonderfuehrer, or whatever else you call yourself, are only allowed to send eggs and things to the Fatherland.' This occurred in the presence of numerous Germans and Ukrainians."
In another report of the Chief of the Head Department, Dr. Moisich, to the Commissar General of Zhitomir, dated the 4th of December 1943 -- for the sake of saving time I shall not read it into the record. All these documents are being presented in their original form to the Tribunal by our American colleagues, under number 288-PS. They have not been submitted to the Tribunal before. Soviet Prosecution's possession, because what I have already read suffices to characterise the conduct of the German soldiers. property of the Soviet inhabitants and to that of the Soviet public and state institutions. reports of the Extraordinary State Commission in reference to crimes of German usurpers and their adherents. the briefest excerpts from this report, so that I can render it in my own words. State Commission dealing with the destruction, looting and atrocities perpetrated by the Hitlerites in the city of Rovno and in the region of Rovno, submitted to the Tribunal as No. USSR-45. The part which deals with these acts is stated as follows, and I quote:
"During the entire period of their stay in Rovno and the Rovno region, Hitlerite officers, men and civil servants unrestrainedly plundered the peaceful Soviet citizens and looted the property of cultural Educational Institutions.
mentioned in a report of the Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the atrocities committed by the Hitlerites in Kiev, submitted to the Tribunal as No. USSR-9. This particularly emphasizes the following, that the Hitlerites in Kiev plundered the peaceful population. I quote brief extracts:
"...The German occupational forces in the city of Kiev plundered and carried off into Germany the equipment of industrial undertakings; the buildings themselves were blown up and burned."
Further there is a testimony of the dean of KIEV_PETCHORSKY Monastery, who related about the plundering of the peaceful population. Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, the satellites of Hitlerite Germany also took part in plundering and other crimes. of their German masters, together with German Armed Forces, plundered this flourishing city. The report of the Extraordinary State Commission concerning "the crimes committed in Odessa"reads in part as follows:
"Rumanians have caused great damages to municipal economy of Odessa during their occupation.... and co-operative farmers and removed to Germany 1,042,013 centners of grain, 45,227 horses, 87,646 head of cattle, 31,821 pigs, and so forth."
In the Report of the Extraordinary State Commission on the "damages caused by the German fascist aggressors to industry, municipal economy, and cultural educational institutions of the Stalino Province", presented to the Tribunal as Document No. USSR-2, gives also numerous data on the plunder and removal to Germany of the various factory equipment of this very important industrial region. With the Tribunal's permission, I shall not quote any excerpts from this report of the Extraordinary State Commission, and I omit those parts. For the benefit of the interpeters: I pass to page 55. Extraordinary State Commission on certain Ukraine regions. This flourishing republic was subjected to unrestrained looting by the Hitlerites. The Hitlerite conspirators considered the Ukraine as one of the "choicest bits" and plundered her with an exceptional greed.
I wish to read several documents as a proof of the above:
Rosenberg's letter to the Reichsleiter Bormann dated 17 October 1944. United States Prosecution under No. USA-338, states that "Eastern Central Trading Co. of the rural supply and demand" sent to Germany in the period of 1943 up to 31 March 1944 only the following, and I quote:
"Cereals - 9,200,000 Tons Meat & meatproducts - 622,000 Tons Thus reported the defendant Rosenberg to Hitler's closest assistant on his "Agricultural Achievements."
of the Hitlerites in plundering the Ukraine was so great, that it awakened a certain misgiving even among themselves. in the Ukraine, addressed to the General of Infantry, Thomas, Chief of the Armament Section OKH. The letter is dated 2 December 1941. This document has been submitted to the Tribunal by the United States Prosecution on 14 December under the No. U.S.A. 290. I read a short excerpt:
"The exportations of agricultural surplus from the Ukraine for the c onsumption in the Ukraine is brought down to the minimum.
This can be attained by the following measures:
1. Extermination of surplus consumers (Jews, the populations of large Ukrainian towns, which, like Kiev, receive no food supplies anyway). 2. Through a itants of other towns.
3. Reduction of food consumption by the peasant population."
Having outlined this program, the author explains further:
"If the Ukrainian is needed for work, we must provide for his of rational business necessity."
I omit the next paragraph of this to carry out the policy of ruthless plundering of the Ukraine.
In due course I will submit to you numerous new documents also originals, to substantiate the above. The policy of Koch met with full approval of the Hitlerite Government. of the occupied territories of the USSR was organised in accordance with the directives contained in the "Green File" already mentioned. 6 September 1941, on the "subject: Inspection concerning seizure and utilization of raw materials", in which he wrote, among other things, as follows: The Tribunal will read it in the Document Book.
"The war situation demands that the supplies of raw materials which have been found in the recently captured Eastern territories, be made available for the German war economy with the utmost speed. "The directives for the management of economy in the Eastern occupied territores" (green file) will be the guide for this purpose. I omit the last part of this quotation. and organised a number of special economic bodies in several occupied territories, and in particular in the Ukraine, a squabble began between the numerous German military and civil bodies and organisation, each of which was engaged in plundering the occupied territories. began to insist that all military and economic organizations in the Ukraine were to be liquidated and their functions transferred to German Civil Administration. for State Secretary Koerner, dated 3 December 1943, as Exhibit USSR-180.
"1. Economic administration in the occupied Eastern territories.
"2. General economic staff for the occupied territories. 1. In a letter to the Reich Marshal, dated 20 November 1943, copies of which were sent to the Chief of Staff of the OKW, and the Director of the Party Chancellory, Minister Rosenberg has made the following demands;
"a. Dissolution of the military economic offices still in existence.
"b. Abolition of the office of Leader of the Army Group Economic Departments "c. In case the office of the Leaders of the Army Group Economic Departments is not abolished:
to discontinue the practice of the same specialists Army Group Economic Departments."
I omit part of the quotation, which is in the memorandum for the report; and further in the same memorandum, there are several objections which were sent by General Keitel. General Stapf, in his objections, criticizes Rosenberg's suggestion and suggests retaining the economic leaders in the east. another original document which is a covering letter by the "Permanent Deputy of the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories," addressed to State Secretary Koerner on the same subject. Written suggestions of Rosenberg were appended to this letter in which, once again, Rosenberg insisted that the entire economic activities be placed under his control. In as much as this is a rather long document, and I present it in the original, I ask your permission not to read it in as much as in substance it is exactly what I already reported to the Tribunal I omit two pages of my presentation and I will pass on to page 62. and, therefore, on 24 January, Rosenberg again approached Goering with a letter on the same subject. I offer this letter in evidence as Exhibit USSR 179. In this letter Rosenberg suggests: I shall read into the record a short quotation. The Tribunal will find this on page 151 in the document book.
"...in the interest of the most frictionless and personnel-saving work possible, to dissolve the Economic Staff East with its subordinate agencies and to transfer to the administration under me the economic administration in the occupied eastern territories...."
evidence as part of the same exhibit USSR-179. I quote:
"Dear Party Member Rosenberg:
"Your letter of 24 January 1944 in regard to the economic administration in the occupied eastern territories has reached me in the meantime. Since the Reich Commissariat Ukraine in particular has become almost exclusively army territory," --I am talking about the Red Army offense which was started in this period -- "I believe it advisable to postpone our conference on the future formation of the economic administration until the operational situation is completely clarified."
Thus, your Honors, Rosenberg's ambitions met with resistance on the part of other German authorities who stubbornly refused to give up such an attractive "economic activity." demands. I now offer in evidence the following document as Exhibit USSR 173, which is a letter from Rosenberg to Goering of 6 March 1944. In this letter, Rosenberg, referring to his experience in Bielo Russia, once again insists on his proposals. It is a long text. I shall not read it in as much as it was presented to the Tribunal in toto, but Goering still continued to have his doubts and he would not decide the question in favor of Rosenberg; and under the circumstances, the latter has in his letter on 6 April 1944, once again addressed a communication to Goering with reference to the experience had in Bielo Russia. This document I submit to the Tribunal as Exhibit USSR 176. are certain motives mentioned in this letter which are not of great interest to us now. I omit page 65 and pass on to page 66. crippling blows on the German fascist hordes, but the Hitlerite brigands continue their crontroversy in their frenzy of dividing the spoils. territories were feverishly looted by the German authorities, both military and civil. of the Extraordinary State Commission, concerning the crimes committed by the Hitlerite invaders in Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic which too were subjected to merciless plundering.
Soviet prosecution. The report of the Extraordinary State Commission on the crimes of the Hitlerites in the Lithuanian Socialist Republic, among other things, is mentioned, and I quote:
"As the result of the managment of the Hitlerite invaders, according to incomplete data, from only 14 districts of the Lithuanian SSR, the number of livestock and poultry decreased by 136,140 horses, 565,995 cattle, 463,340 pigs, 594,492 sheep, 996,000 chickens, and 424,178 geese and ducks "as compared to the years 1940, 1941 ..." on the crimes committed by the German invaders in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. The quotation is on page 68, second paragraph:
"The Germans plundered the Tractor and Farm Machinery Stations throughout Latvia and according to figures which are far from complete, sent away into Germany 700 tractors, 180 motor vehicles, 4,057 ploughs, 2,815 cultivators, 3,532 harrows ..." " and so forth. away to Germany 107,000 horses, 31,000 cows, 214,000 pigs, and 790,000 head of poultry. State Commission relative to crimes in Estonia, and I read:
"The German invaders plundered the rural population of Estonia without restrain This plunder took the form of imposing of the peasants the compulsory deliveries of various kinds of farm products." tremendous."
"The Germans confiscated and drove away to Germany 107,000 horses, 31,000 cows, 214,000 pigs, 790,000 head of poultry. They plundered about 50,000 bee hives."
"The Hitlerites took away 1,000 threshing machines, 500 threshing machine motors 700 motors for driving belts, 350 tractors and 24,781 other agricultural machines which belonged to the individual peasants."
property was carried out by the German Fascist invaders also in the occupied territories of Byelorussia, Moldavia, the Karelo-Finnish SSR and the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. at all stages of the war employed the same methods of plunder in accordance with the same criminal plan and pursuing the same criminal aims. This plan was mapped out; these aims were determined; these crimes were organized by the major war criminals who are now in the dock. documents exposing the crimes of the Hitlerites in plundering collective and state farms, villages and towns, as well as the peaceful population of the German occupied territories.
The presentation of all these numerous documents to the Tribunal would require such a long period of time that it would only complicate the trial. For this reason, with the Tribunal's permission, I will not quote any further decrees or reports of the Extraordinary State Commission or individual regions in the Republic, but I shall pass on to reading into the record the resume report by the Extraordinary State Commission relative to the material damage done by the German Fascists to the state enterprises and establishments, collective farms, public organizations and individual citizens of the USSR. This document is being presented to the Tribunal, and it is USSR-35. which have a direct bearing on the subject of my presentation. It is stated in the document, page 71:
"The German Fascist aggressors pillaged 98,000 collective farms, 1,876 state farms and 2,890 machine and tractor stations. There were killed and shipped to Germany 7 million horses, 17 million head of cattle, 20 million pigs, 27 million sheep and goats and 110 million head of poultry. The State Extraordinary Commission has reckoned the damage done to the national economy of the Soviet Union and to individual villagers and townspeople at 679 milliard roubles reckoned at the official prices current in 1941 as this:
1. State concerns and institutions 287 2. Collective farms 181 3. Villagers and townspeople 192 4. Cooperatives, trade unions, and other public organizations 19."
is stated how this damage is divided among separate Soviet Republics, and I pass on to the fourth paragraph, in which it is stated about the destruction of collective farms, state farms, and machine tractor stations.
In order to shorten the presentation, I select out of this part only a few separate excerpts. plundered the inhabitants of these villages completely. Podolsk, in the Kursk region, and the collective farm for the labor in the region of Krasnodar, and the labor in collective farms was started in the Mortkovo and Toltchkovo districts and others. It is also mentioned in this report about the damage which was suffered by the Soviet farms, that is, to state-owned farms, and in particular it was indicated that the German Fascist intruders shipped out of collective farms stores of agricultural products, destroyed farm buildings, and other excerpts.
"No, 62 horse farm in the Poltava district, as a result of the German occupation, lost its stock of Russo-American trotting brood mares. Up to the war, this stud farm had 670 brood mares. The Germans acted in the same way in regard to other breeding farms." on to paragraph 6, which deals with the mass looting of Soviet citizens' property by the Germans.
"In all the republics, districts and territories of the Soviet Union which were occupied, the Fascist German invaders looted the property of the rural and city population, stealing valuables, property, clothing, and household articles and imposing fines, taxes and forced payments on the peaceful population." robbing the Soviet citizens in Smolensk in the Orel, in Leningrad Province, Demyansk and Litchkovsk Provinces, and so forth. With the Tribunal's permission, I omit two pages of my presentation and at the end of page 76 I read the following paragraph.
"The plundering of the Soviet population by the German aggressors was being carried on in all of the Soviet territory which was occupied without limit.
"The Extraordinary State Commission has undertaken the task of estimating the damage done to the Soviet citizens by the occupation authorities, and has established that the German Fascist invaders had burnt down and destroyed approximately 4,000,000 dwelling houses, which represented the personal property of members of collective farms, workers and employees, had confiscated from them one and onehalf million horses, 9 million head of cattle, 12 million hogs, 13 million sheep and goats, and had also taken away an enormous quantity of all kinds of household goods and chattels." State Commission show the crimes committed by the Hitlerites in the occupied territories of the USSR. These crimes had been organized by the Defendants. Trustee for the Four Year Plan of the Hitlerite Government, was directly in charge of all the operations of the German military and civil authorities for the preparation and the execution of despoliation of the occupied territories, has been clearly shown by the documents already presented by me. Nevertheless, I beg the indulgence of the Tribunal to read the final document on this matter, that is, the decree issued by Hitler on 29 June 1941. Prosecution, and it has not been presented before; and therefore I present it to the Tribunal as USSR-287. It is the Fuehrer's decree, and it will read as follows. I read.
"Fuehrer's Decree concerning the Organization of Economy in the recently occupied Eastern Territories of 29 June 1941. 1. In the newly occupied eastern territories, Reich Marshall Hermann Goering, as the Trustee of the Four Year Plan, will, for the benefit of the German war economy, employ within his respective powers all means necessary for the all most exploitation of the supplies discovered and economic potentials as well as for the development of economic forces.