The Commissioner for the Four Year Plan The Deputy General for Labor Supply No. IVa 5780.28/1138
Berlin, SW 11, 17 March 1943 Saarlandstr. 96 (Reich's Ministry for Labor)
Tel. of the RAM: 11 00 28
Postal Checking Account of the RAM, Branch: Berlin 100.19 Copies:
1. Gauleiter
2. Ill W 5
3. Special Deputy for the Eastern Labor Supply Receipt stamp 03487 dated 18 March 1943
Personal!
To: The Reichsminister for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
Att. Mr. Reichsminister ROSENBERG, Berlin Subject: Draft of workers from the East Dear Party Member Rosenberg:
After a protracted illness my Deputy for Labor Supply in the occupied Eastern Territories, State Councillor Peukert, is going
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there to regulate the labor supply both for Germany and the territories themselves.
I ask you sincerely; dear party member Rosenberg, to assist him to your utmost on account of the pressing urgency of Peu-kert's mission. Already now I may thank you for the hitherto good reception accorded to Peukert. He himself has been charged by me with the absolute and completely unreserved cooperation with all bureaus of the Eastern Territories.
Especially the labor supply for the German agriculture, and likewise for the most urgent armament production programs ordered by the Fuehrer make the fastest importation of approximately 1 million women and men from the Eastern Territories within the next 4 months a must. Starting 15 March the daily shipment must have reached 5000 female and male workers respectively, while beginning of April this number has to be stepped up to 10,000. This is a requisite of the most urgent programs, and the spring tillage, and other agricultural tasks are not to suffer to the detriment of the nutrition and of the armed forces.
I have foreseen the allotment of the draft quotas for the individual territories in agreement with your experts for the labor supply as follows:
Daily quota starting 15 March 1943:
From General Commissariat White Ruthenia... 500 people
Economic Inspection Center................... 500 people
Reich's Commissariat Ukraine................. 3 000 people
Economic Inspection South.................... 1 000 people
Total................................ 5 000 people
Starting 1 April 1943 the daily quota is to be doubled corresponding to the doubling of the entire quota.
I hope to visit personally the Eastern Territories towards the end of the month, and ask you once more for your kind support.
HEIL HITLER!
Signed: SAUCKEL
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Letter to Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg concerning the drafting of one million workers from Eastern Europe
Authors
Fritz Sauckel (Plenipotentiary for Labor Mobilization)
Fritz Sauckel
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
- Born: 1894-10-27 (Haßfurt) (located in the administrative territorial entity: Bavaria)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: item/value with less precision and/or accuracy; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (date: 1946-09-23; role: affiant, defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Date: 17 March 1943
Literal Title: Subject: Draft of workers from the East
Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-019
HLSL Item No.: 452154
Notes:Another copy of PS 19 was entered as US exhibit 181; this copy was apparently not entered against Rosenberg in January 1946.
Document Summary
PS-19: Letter from Sauckel to Rosenberg re deportation of slave laborers from the East
PS-19: Letter from Sauckel to Rosenberg, 17 March 1943, concerning the recruitment of labor from the east for Germany, giving quota required from the various occupied territories
PS-19: March 17, 1943. Letter from Sauckel to Rosenberg concerning draft of workers from the East.