However, the Reich Commissioner for the Ukraine, Koch, went steadily on
with his policy of ruthlessly plundering the Ukraine. In due course I
shall submit to you numerous further documents, also in the original, in
confirmation of the above. Koch’s policy met with the approbation of the
Hitlerite Government.
It is worthy of note that at the beginning of the war the plundering of
the occupied territories of the U.S.S.R. was organized in accordance
with the directives contained in the Green File, already mentioned. I
submit to the Tribunal, as Exhibit Number USSR-13 (Document Number
USSR-13), a letter by Göring dated 6 September 1941 on the subject of
inspection for the seizure and utilization of raw materials, in which,
among other things, the following passage occurs—the Tribunal will find
this excerpt on Page 131 of the document book:
“The war emergency demands that the supplies of raw materials
found in the recently captured eastern territories be put at the
disposal of the German war economy as quickly as possible. The
Directives for the Economic Management of the Occupied Eastern
Territories (Green File) are to be taken as authoritative.”