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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 2091-PS

1940 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 513

Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Appointing a Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions 17 April 1940

In order to consolidate the highest leadership of all offices engaged in the production of armaments and munitions in the Greater German Reich including the German Government for occupied Polish territories, I am appointing a Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions. I appoint as Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions the General Inspector of the German Highways Dr. Engineer Todt. The issuance of administrative regulations are reserved by me.

Berlin, 17 March 1940.

The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
Adolf Hitler

The President for the Council of the Ministry for the Defense of the Reich
Goering
General Field Marshal

The Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces
Keitel

The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Dr. Lammers
Source:
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV
Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946

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