"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 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 interest[ed] in research.

Fuehrer Headquarters, 9 June 1942."

signed by the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and by the Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellory, Dr. Lammers.

In order to amplify somewhat the organization of the Reich Research Council, we have secured an affidavit from one of the non-defendant members of that organization, and I refer to the affidavit of Werner Osenberg which is Document NO-897 and which will be Prosecution Exhibit 39 [HLSL item 2082].

"I, Werner Osenberg, being duly sworn, depose and state: --