Mobilization plans

Perform mobilization planning (general mobilization, continuity of operations, and industrial preparedness) to include utilization of pilot line fabrication and shop capabilities to provide assigned materiel in short supply until such time as industry can assure quantity production... 

Q. As you know, the prosecution charges that Farben in this field, particularly, took the initiative by drafting these production-mobilization plans. Does this allegation correspond to the truth ... 

Three miles from the restaurant where they ate dinner, the security clerk of the Vermittlungstelle Wehrmacht was about to quit for the day. He carefully checked the papers that were stamped "secret — l.G. farbenindustre." Among them were rough sketches of a proposed "buna plant to the East," the plans for the Fuerstenberg site in Upper Silesia, and mobilization plans for more than 100,000 tons of buna mbber for the year 1939. 

Q. Well, I think the best procedure will be if I show you a few documents to refresh your recollection. First, let me show you a file memorandum from Ambros to you, dated 7 July 1938. This says, "Plant Schedules for buna factories," and it says "The mobilization plan provides for, by 1 July, a buna production of 100,000 tons a year. It is therefore agreed" and so forth. Does that refresh your recollection that the planned buna expansion was related to the military mobilization plans ... 

After Haefliger s Anschluss memo was found, the prosecution got an affidavit from a Reich official who said that, as early as 1934, Paul Haefliger had been assigned the duty within Farben of "the setting up of mobilization plans for war." His counsel asked ... 

A. I always thought it a matter of course that there have to be certain mobilization plans for economy. After all, war affects economy, too. 

Q. Also, is it not a fact that Dr. Mueller informed you of the mobilization plans for TNT — that he asked you for Farben experts ... 

Q. Now, we offer this strictly confidential letter from Paul Mueller to you. Please look at it and tell me whether it recalls to your memory that he set forth here all the mobilization plans for Dynamit A.G. ... 

At Cransberg, Hermann Schmitz had agreed "I.G. Farben, as early as 1934, had started with the preparation of mobilization plans." Nevertheless, said Ter Meer ... 

This gives a totally wrong impression. I.G. Farben never prepared mobilization plans for itself, let alone the whole German industry. Such plans can be made only by central government offices in cooperation with the armed forces. In view of my insufficient knowledge, my own statement on this was often naturally erroneous. 

Q. Dr. ter Meer, is not the following a true record of what you said to the investigators "Question When did you become acquainted with the mobilization plans for war drawn up in 1934 by the various I.G. plants Answer Well, I wouldn t call that mobilization for war."... 

Strength South Carolina Firefighter Mobilization plan activated and well staffed. Unified Command provided access to all needed agencies. Federal agencies well-integrated and supportive EPA continually provided maps once the Unified Command Post (UCP) was established. Mutual aid agreements were in place with SRS (Savannah River Site) and Aiken County. Fort Gordon Haz-Mat resources were briefed to GVW Fire Department... 

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON GERMANY AND AUSTRIA 5 MOBILIZATION PLANS... 

Nitric acid (HNO3) assumed a central role among chemicals with applications in munitions, because all modern gunpowders and explosives are nitric acid derivatives. It became clear even before the transition to positional warfare that the 600 tons of explosives and 475 of gunpowder per month called for in the mobilization plan were amounts far too little to conduct the war, but even then the kinds and amounts that would be necessary on a regular basis remained unclear. For a time each arm had to make a new monthly calculation. The dimensions of the problem become clear if one reckons the quantity of nitrogen to which the army and navy... 

While procurement was kept at a minimum there were no restrictions on procurement planning. The Procurement Planning Division of the Chief s office was responsible for drawing up and submitting its portion of industrial mobilization plans to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War. Early in 1924 procurement district offices were activated in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and San Francisco. ... 

There were few Negro troops in the Army in the peacetime period, and prior to 1940 the number of Negro units provided for in the Protective Mobilization Plan (PMP) was decidedly limited. No provision was made for any Negro chemical units. In the summer of 1940 the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, recommended modification of the PMP in order to provide more Negro units. The CWS initially felt the effects of the new policy when the ist Chemical Decontamination Company, constituted as a white company in the PMP, was activated on i August 1940 at Fort Eustis, Virginia, as a Negro unit. ... 

Six of the regiments were officer-manned reserve organizations four were designated as National Guard units and were allotted to corps areas (but not to individual states) for inclusion in mobilization planning. These,... 

The CWS protective mobilization plan contemplated that training of other components at the Chemical Warfare School would be discontinued upon mobilization, when the school would reorganize for its primary mission of training CWS troops. Two types of courses were specified in the new setup successive thirty-day refresher classes of seventy-five officers, and a series of classes for enlisted specialists (meteorologists). This program would have proven inadequate, even had it been followed. Yet there was no evident inclination in 1940 to extend the school training of CWS officers. In recommending to the War Department the courses to be conducted at the school between i July 1940 and 30 June 1941, the CWS proposed only six courses, none of them specifically for preparation of Chemical Warfare Service officers for active duty. ... 

Soon after the declaration of war the General Staff questioned whether the technical branches were making adequate provision for service units under the augmented protective mobilization plan for 1942. In response to an inquiry on this point, the Chief, CWS, reported that insufficient chemical... 

The prewar plan of the Chemical Warfare Service for officer candidate training had been written in general terms. If an officer candidate school were to be operated under the Protective Mobilization Plan, it would be "established and conducted by the Chemical Warfare School. Classes of three-month duration would begin at M-30, M-60, and monthly thereafter. Each class would have about 150 candidates. "... 

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