The Five Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler, who put Hermann Göring in charge of them. Göring was made a Reich Plenipotentiary, whose jurisdiction cut across the responsibilities of various cabinet ministries, including those of the Minister of Economics, the Defense Minister and the Minister of Agriculture. The plan was part of the alternative governmental structure created by Hitler and the Nazi Party, which included entities such as Organisation Todt and the unification of the SS and the German police forces, including the Gestapo, under Heinrich Himmler.[1]