The necessity to expand all available forces to highest efficiency in
the interest of the state requires, not only in peace time but also, and
especially, in war time, the concentrated effort of scientific research
and its channellization toward the goal to be aspired.
Therefore, I commission the Reich Marshal Hermann Goering to establish
as an independent entity a Reich Research Council, which is to serve
this purpose, to take over its chairmanship himself and to give it a
charter.
Leading men of science above all are to make research fruitful for
warfare by working together in their special fields. The hitherto
existing Reich Research Council which was under the Reich Minister for
Science and Education [Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung] is to
be absorbed by the new organization.
The means needed for research purposes are to be established in the
Reich budget as far as they will not be raised from contributions (for
research) of circles interested in research.
Fuehrer Headquarters, 9 June 1942
The Fuehrer
ADOLF HITLER
The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
DR. LAMMERS
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-645
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 3
[Illustration: Table of Organization of the Reich Commissioner for
Health and Medical Service, drawn by the defendant Karl Brandt]
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[15] To Wehrmacht in this connection belong: Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, the
Waffen SS units under orders of the Wehrmacht and the organizations and
services engaged within the framework of the Wehrmacht. [Footnote in
original document.]
[16] Same as Footnote 15 above.
[17] As to the Navy these rules will not apply or will apply with
restrictions only to personnel _on board_. [Footnote in original
document.]