Memorandum from Paul H. Gantt to General Taylor, January 1, 1948

X January 1948 MEMORANDUM for General Taylor. SUBJECT; Notes on opening statement, pages 1-10 page 3t eliminate ”of all time’* in the sentence; These men include the protean Hermann Goering — next in line of succession to Hitler and the leading rank and office holder. Hitler depossessed Goering in March or April 1945. page 5 ; suggest” according to the official handbook of the Nazi parly for 1936” if this is correct. correct the 6th line from the bottom as follows; ”The defendant Darre was neich Minister for Food and Agriculture, and the defendant vom Krosigk the Reich Minister of Finance. These may be compared roughly to the Department of Agriculture and the department of the reasury in the United States government.” I added ”Relch” before Minister of Finance and reversed the order of the second sentence. I also note that Krosigk is referred to as ”von Arosgk” and other times as ”Lutz ^chwerln Krosigk”. Do you want , it uniform throughout the opening statement? page 6; 6th line; "ШХШРХШХ This Ministry has only the name in common with ttosx its namesake department in the American government.” rThird paragraph; I suggest leaving out the 'Organization Todt”because it hardly will be mentioned during the trial. page ?; Was the Reichsbank directly under Hitler? I doubt it. As far as I know it was either under the Ministry of Economics or (in some phases) under the Ministry of Finances. Hitler only had the right to appoint the President of the •^eichsbank. Adams should know this. page 9* line 9* Walther Darre was the к fcfcx head of the Яжххх the predecessor of the Race and Resettlement Office from 1931 to 1938. I do not have an indictment at hand, but the correct title of the predeceddor office (which is almost identical) appears in the indictment under Darre. Paul Gantt