Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan, Herman Göring Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan (Herman Göring) (Fond 700)

Hermann Göring was appointed as the Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan on October 18, 1936. This appointment, as well as that of the Commissar for Raw Materials and Foreign Currency, gives Göring a great deal of influence over the German economy. Between 1937 and 1941, Göring exercises nearly absolute power over the country's economy. The Four-Year Plan had four priorities: 1. To increase agricultural production; 2. Retrain key sectors of the work force; 3. Government regulation of imports and exports; 4. To achieve self-sufficiency in the production of raw materials. The Four-Year Plan was extended into World War Two. To force through success Goering was quite prepared to use slave labor. He later tried to justify ordering the use of what he called “forced labor” at the Nuremberg Trials when he said that he believed that Germany was fighting for its very existence and therefore any measures that could help Germany to survive were, by their very nature, acceptable.

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 700. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2000 and accretion in 1993, and accretion in 2002.