the main purposes of the inAŠIOL WAS to steal the food and raw material needed for the NAZ VAT TAŠine, regardless of the cour sequences to the Russian people which such robbery wodd ex tail that doubt is dispelled by a memorandum showing clear and constions recognition by the Nazis that their plans would no doubt result in starving to death millions of people. (2718-N On 20 June 1941 General Thomas wrote & memorandom sjong a similar line, in which he stated that Keitel bad condmmed to him Hitler's present conception of the German economic policy concerning raw materials (146-PSI. This polky expressed the theory that less manpower would be used in the conquest of sources of raw materials than would be necessary to produce sy thetics in len of such raw materials This metrandum reads in part: "The following is the new eception of the Paehrer, which Minister Todt has explained to me and which has beez 2012 firmed later on by Field Marshal Keitel: "1. The course of the war shows that we went too far in our autarchical endeavors. It is impossible to try and mandfacture everything we lack, by synthetic procedures, or other measures. For instance, it is impossible to develop our motor fuel economy to a point where we can entirely depend on it. All these autarchical endeavors ask for a tremendous amount of manpower, and it is simply impossible to provide it. One has to choose another way. What one does not have, but needs, one must conquer. The commitment of men which is necessary one single time, will not be as great as the one that is currently needed for the running of the synthetic factories in question. The aim must also be to secure all territories, which are of special interest to us for the war economy, by conquering them. "At the time the 4-year-plan was established, I issued the statement where I made it clear that a completely autarchical economy is impossible for us, because the need of men will be too great. Nevertheless, my solution was always to provide the necessary reserves for missing stocks respectively to secure the delivery in wartime through economic alliances." (1456-PS) On this macabre note the story of this aggression comes to an end. In view of the solemn pledge of non-aggression; the base and sinister motives involved; the months of secret planning and preparation; and the suffering intentionally and deliberately wrought; it may perhaps not be too much to say that in the history of relations between sovereign nations, a blacker chap ter has never been written than the one which tells of the Nazi conspirators' unprovoked invasion of the territory of the Soviet Union. LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS 13 March 1941, concerning Direc 409 *864-PS *865-PS *872-PS III 619 tives for special areas. (USA 135). III Memorandum of Discussion be- III 621 III 626 *873-PS Top secret memorandum of dis- Document Description Vol. Page *1017-PS *1019-PS *1029-PS *1030-PS 1034-PS *1039-PS *1058-PS 1156-PS *1157-PS "Barbarossa", signed by Keitel for Hitler, and initialled by Jodl... III 637 Appendix to Memorandum No. 2. General instructions for all Reich Report concerning preparatory Excerpt from a speech, 20 June III 674 III 681 III 690 III 692 Document *1229-PS 1316-PS *1317-PS for Economic exploitation of OKW Directive to the German Top secret notes taken by Hamann *1456-PS *1517-PS *1799-PS *1834-PS Annex 1 to report of Chief of Gen- IV 374 IV 469 |