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One thing Dr. Lachmann's report did not make clear: how much, if any, of the trust's profits go to the Marshal. Although he reputedly received 70% of the profits from the original Salzgitter "works, it is understood in Germany today that the Göring trust is 100% State-owned, that the Marshal runs it as an agent of the State, which pays him a salary (plus bonuses in art treasures—see cut, p. 79). At its inception, Nazi spokesmen used to say that the whole trust would one day be returned to private control. Today they say it won't.
Thus Göring cannot be called the world's richest man. But he is certainly Europe's, probably the world's, most potent industrialist. Last month the Hermann Göring Works was reorganized under three sub-holding companies: one for mines and ore refining, one for arms and machine production, one for shipping and inland waterways. But the full range of its products (among them: synthetic oil, guns, turbines, textiles, typewriters, tanks, ships) is a Nazi secret.
-The Göring trust now controls the whole of Skoda. This addition and others have upped the trust's capital account to over $800,000,000, the number of workers to over 600,000.