MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: Further on you wrote:
“The contribution of economy to the great political aims of the Führer demands not only a strong and unified direction of all the economic and political measures, but also above all careful co-ordination.... Industry; food, agriculture, forestry, timber industry, foreign trade, transport, manpower, the regulation of wages and prices, finance, credits must be coordinated, so that the entire economic potential should serve in the defense of the Reich. In order to fulfill this task, the authorities of the Reich in charge of these spheres are included in my authority in my capacity as Plenipotentiary for Economy.”
Do you confirm that this is precisely what you wrote in 1939?
FUNK: Yes.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: Is that question not quite clear to you?
THE PRESIDENT: He said, “Yes.”
FUNK: I said, “Yes”; I certainly wrote that.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: You confirm it. You know about the issue in June 1941 of the so-called “Green File” of Göring? It was read into the record here. These are directives for the control of economy or, rather, directives for the spoliation of the occupied territories of the U.S.S.R. How did you personally participate in the planning of these directives?
FUNK: I do not know that. I do not know any more whether or not I participated at all.
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: You do not remember? How is it possible that these documents were planned without you, Reich Minister of Economics, the President of the Reichsbank, and Plenipotentiary for Economy and the armament industry?