PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 59
A SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE OF FIELD MARSHAL
ERHARD MILCH
| Date | Position | Activity |
| 30.3.92 | Date of birth. | |
| 24.2.10 | Officer candidate | First Foot Artillery Regt. |
| 18.8.11 | Lieutenant | Recruit training. |
| 1.8.14 | Lieutenant | Adjutant, 2d Bn., Reserve, First Foot Artillery Regt. |
| 2.7.15 | Lieutenant | Air Force, Reconnaissance Observer. |
| 18.8.15 | First Lieutenant | Air Force, Reconnaissance Observer. |
| Winter 16-17 | First Lieutenant | Air Force, Adjutant of a unit. |
| 1917 | First Lieutenant | Chief of the Fifth Air Squadron. |
| 1918 | First Lieutenant | Detached service, commander of an Inf. Company; Detached service, commander of a Field Artillery Battery. |
| 18.8.18 | Captain | Air Force, commander of 204th Air Squadron, commander of Sixth Fighter Group. |
| 1919 | Captain | Commander of 412th Border Guard Squadron. |
| 1920 | Captain | Detached service, commander of Police Air Squadron. |
| End of 1920 | Captain | Resigned from military service. |
| 1921 | Lloyd-Ostflug, later Danziger Luftpost | Civilian air transport company, Operation chief; Civilian air transport company, Manager. |
| 1922 | Junkers-Luftverkehr & Danziger Luftpost | Head of Traffic Department—Organizer of air lines with Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland. |
| 1923 | Junkers-Luftverkehr & Danziger Luftpost | Id. |
| 1924 | Junkers-Luftverkehr & Danziger Luftpost | Head of air expedition to South America. Business travel to the U.S.A. |
| 1925 | Junkers-Luftverkehr | Head of General Administration. |
| Nov. 1925 | Deutsche Lufthansa | Member of Technical Board. |
| Summer 1928 | Deutsche Lufthansa | Id. and Business Director. |
| 30.1.33 | Id. and Deputy Reich Commissioner for Aviation | Id. concurrently with direction of aviation under supervision of Goering. |
| March 33 | Deutsche Lufthansa and State Secretary | Id. in the Reich Ministry of Aviation. |
| May 1933 | Join NSDAP | Party member without assignment of tasks for Party. |
| Sept. 1933 | Activated as Colonel | Party membership suspended. |
| 1934 | Brigadier General | Reich Air Ministry and Deutsche Lufthansa. |
| 1935 | Major General | Reich Air Ministry and Deutsche Lufthansa. |
| 1936 | Lieutenant General (Air Force) | Reich Air Ministry and Deutsche Lufthansa. |
| Inspector General of the Air Force | ||
| 1938 | General | |
| 1.9.39 | General | To operational Air Force. |
| 11.4.-5.5.40 | General | Commander of Fifth Air Fleet. |
| Since 10.5.40 | General | Inspector General. |
| 19.7.40 | Field Marshal | Inspector General. |
| Nov. 41 | Field Marshal | Id. and Chief of Air Force Material (Development, testing, procurement of Air Force material). |
| April 42 | Field Marshal | Central Planning Board; Allocation of raw materials. |
| March 44 | Field Marshal | Establishment of “Jaegerstab”. Raising output of fighter craft. |
| 20.6.44 | Field Marshal | Resign posts of State Secretary and Chief of Air Force Material. |
| Jan. 45 | Resign post of Inspector General. | |
| March 45 | Field Marshal | Hitler declines my reinstatement. |
| 4.5.45 | Field Marshal | Taken into British custody in Holstein. |
| 1 November 1946. | [Signed] Erhard Milch | |
EXCERPTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT MILCH[[139]]
[March 11]
Erhard Milch, the defendant, took the stand and testified as follows:
Judge Musmanno: The defendant will raise his right hand and repeat after me: I swear by God, the Almighty and Omniscient, that I will speak the pure truth and will withhold and add nothing.
(The defendant repeated the oath.)
Judge Musmanno: You may be seated.