English Translation

25 of 27 October 1943. In order to prepare the discussion of the subject matter, in which it would have been impossible to examine all the details for reasons of time, the examination carried out in the meantime proved necessary on the spot. That it was only necessary in the period from 2nd to 1st. In the first place, it is important to point to the shift that your department wishes to make, to a lesser extent, to the consequences of the air raids on Berlin. With reference to repeated orders from the Führer, I should like to conclude by saying that in all parts of the Great German Reich the participation of the technical departments in questions of a fundamental nature is indispensable if this can affect the interests of the whole Reich. I should therefore like to ask that, in future, on questions of fundamental importance, the Reich's departments concerned should be informed in sufficient time of the measures envisaged, so that a substantive discussion can be undertaken and, if necessary, a vote on the regulation to be taken on the interests of the Reich.