English Translation

130 Neier Fag nam 10.15 43 VOLKSwirtschaft Itellung to reorganize, whereby the powers of the The New Planning Office main committees and rings will of course be taken into account The responsibilities in the leading empire. The new arrangements notified yesterday will not allow the authorities mentioned to continue their activities in the headquarters or in the central authority until the new administrative machinery has been established. It is only a matter of the Minister of Armaments, unless the concentration of forces is determined in a more uniform way, his new leadership with the aim of increasing production only on 1 November. These details remain as a guiding principle So far, the methods by which the fact that the technical right of instruction was directed to the armaments production sector were fundamentally different in all matters of production, whether it and the methods for which the so-called civil was governed over official responsibilities, over production. The self-governing bodies, cartels, etc. Armaments industry has been involved in arms production, always with the Minister of Arms are on the way over the committees and rings, which are directly responsible for the Ministry of Spear. These main committees and the rings have determined what is produced, how is produced and where is produced. The civil production, however, which was led by Reichsminister Funk, experienced its control by quotas, was steered by the Reichsstellen. If one considers that the civilian war production of the number of enterprises was far more prevalent than the production of arms, but that this civl production worked mainly also for the Wehrmacht, whether it was producing wristwatches or handkerchiefs and similar things, it becomes clear that the Ministry of Speer had to intervene increasingly also in these civilian economic areas. The unified leadership, which has now been ordered, at the same time also means uniformity of the steering methods. Reichsminister Funk and Reichs Minister Speer agree that organis- torically as little should be changed as possible. The Commission's proposal for a directive on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances and preparations for use in foodstuffs is a very important step in the right direction. The national economic offices, which are still under the supervision of Funk - the same applies to the commercial organization and the Reichsstelle - will in any case result mainly from the unification of the central management. At the regional level of economic administration, however, a summary and realignment will also be carried out by special decree. What will be organizationally agreed and changed in detail will probably only result from the work of the new planning office, which has been established by order of Reichsmarschall Göring, and which is to form the unified central planning office for all the departments of the commercial economy, from which the Reich offices and Reich associations receive their technical instructions, from whom the planning for the distribution of raw materials and for the allocation of materials takes place. Here in this new planning office there will be a decision on what needs to be done in terms of consumption, what must be done for foreign trade from production. As this planning office now unites in the four-year plan the *different planning bodies of the war economy, the instrument has been created to criminalize the production and distortion of industrial products across all responsibilities and departments. The fact that the new planning office represents central planning, as it were, in the body of the panel, that war-sustaining cabinet, which is composed of spear, milk, grain and funk, clearly shows the special importance of this new office, whose chief president is likely to become chairman. President Kehrl has been the man who, on behalf of Reichsminister Funks, led a comprehensive reorganization of goods management in the past months. He is the father of the Reichsvereinigungen, is an outstanding expert in the field of war organization. His work in the new planning office will also go on, the tasks of the Reichsstelle and the Reich Associations etc. in view of the increase in production by a meaningful work.