Milch: You know our position. We are convinced that you do everything you can. But we must now commit a robbery. We can no longer operate along legal lines.
(Schmelter: That is the only possibility.)
There will be abuse but we must accept that.
Schmelter: I shall go tomorrow to Mr. Sauckel and tell him that he must give the fighter industry the next transport of workers from the East. The proposal that the fighter industry should not give back the laborers it received who originally worked in agriculture has been turned down by Sauckel. I am commissioned to inform you of this.
Milch: That is out of the question. Nothing shall go out of the fighter industry!
Schmelter: I am commissioned to say that he must have this labor back again.
Milch: Later, not now! One more thing. We must protect all the factories working for the fighter program. We must say to them: You must not give up people for anything whatsoever except on command of the Jaegerstab. None can touch you, not even the local labor offices and the ministerial authorities; requests for personnel must all be directed to the Jaegerstab. We must put that out clearly as an order.
(Petri: That is already in previous minutes.)
Schmelter: May I request that this order should be extended to the management and repair personnel of the electricity and gas works.
Milch: I can only do it for the Jaegerstab. I am not doing it for the bomber and other branches either as we have only that special authority.