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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
RELATING TO AGGRESSION AGAINST THE USSR

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tives for special areas. (USA 135). III
Top Secret Note, 20 October 1939,
on conference between Hitler and
Chief OKW concerning future re-
lations of Poland to Germany,
17 October 1939. (USA 609). . . .
Correspondence between Keitel,
Rosenberg and Lammers, April
1941, concerning appointment of
Jodl and Warlimont as OKW rep-
resentatives with Rosenberg.
(USA 143).

Memorandum of Discussion be-
tween the Fuehrer and the OKW,
concerning case "Barbarossa" and
"Sonnenblume" (African opera-
tion). (USA 134).............

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Top secret memorandum of dis-
cussion with the Chief "L", 30

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"Barbarossa", signed by Keitel

for Hitler, and initialled by Jodl... III 637
• Memorandum entitled "Memorial
No. 1 regarding USSR", 2 April
1941, found in Rosenberg's "Rus-
sia File". (USA 142)........

Appendix to Memorandum No. 2.
Recommendation as to the per-
sonnel for the Reich Commis-
sariats in the East and for the
Political Central Office in Berlin,
7 April 1941. (USA 823)..
Paper entitled "Instructions for a
Reich Commissar in the Baltic
States", 8 May 1941, found in
Rosenberg's "Russia File". (USA
145)....

General instructions for all Reich
Commissars in the Occupied East-
ern Territories, 8 May 1941, found
in Rosenberg file. (USA 144)..
Minutes of discussion concerning
Construction and Administration,
22 June 1941.....

Report concerning preparatory
work regarding problems in East-
ern Territories, 28 June 1941,
found in Rosenberg's "Russia
File". (USA 146).

Excerpt from a speech, 20 June
1941, by Rosenberg before people
most intimately concerned with
Eastern Problem, found in his
"Russia File". (USA 147)...
Report to Goering from Chief of
Office for War Mobilization of
Economy, 19 March 1941...
Report on conference, 29 April
1941, concerning top secret plan

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for Economic exploitation of
Soviet Areas (Oldenburg Plan).
(USA 141)...

OKW Directive to the German
Intelligence Service in the East,
signed by Jodl, 6 September 1940.
(USA 130)...
Top secret note for files on confer-
ence of 21 March 1941 concerning
employment of Quartermaster
General....

Top secret notes taken by Hamann
of a discussion of the economic
exploitation of Russia, presided
over by General Thomas, 28 Feb-
ruary 1941. (USA 140)..

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Annex 1 to report of Chief of Gen-
eral Staff of the Army, 5 December
1940, concerning planned opera-
tion in the East. (USA 131). . . . .
Report on conference between
Ribbentrop and Oshima, 23 Feb-
ruary 1941. (USA 129)..

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