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in the field 4/11/1941
Wi Stab Ost Fue/Ia, Az.B.NR. 6730/41
Special Instructions No. 44
Feeding of Civilian Population in the occupied Eastern Territories Weekly Maximum in Grams
a. For population which does no; work worth mentioning.
Meat and meat products none
Fat 70
Bread 1500
Potatoes 2000
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d. Children under H years old and Jews: Half of the maximum according to a.
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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMÉNT II93-PS
SECRET
The Reich Marshall of the Greater German Reich Deputy for the Four Year Plan The State Secretary
Berlin W 8, Leipziger Str. 3, 14 November 1941
V. P. 19008/2 Secret.
In the annexes I submit, in three copies, a note on the result of a conference which was held on 7 November 1941 by the Reich Marshall and which concerned the
Employment of Soviet Russians
Meanwhile the Reich Marshall has ordered (cf. V of the note) that the utilization of those Russians who are not under the armed forces (prisoners of war and free workers) should be centrally directed in the Reich, including the protectorate and the General Government, as well as in the Reich Commissariats by his agency Arbeitseinsatz. To perform its functions, it will avail itself of the general administration of the Arbeitseinsatz, and in the occupied Eastern territories of the organization for the Arbeitseinsatz which is at the disposal of the Economic Staff East, respectively the Reich commissar, general commissar, etc.
The Reich Marshall has made the agency Arbeitseinsatz responsible for a rapid and appropriate solution of all problems which are connected with the utilization of the Russians in the civilian domain. He requests that the responsible agencies should acknowledge the importance of this matter by fullest cooperation and should help in eliminating the existing difficulties to the best of their abilities.
The Reich Marshall expects to receive on 15 December 1941 the first report of the agency Arbeitseinsatz as to what extent the directives issued by him on 7 November have been set into practice.
Signed : Koerner Authenticated : Schwingle
Ministry Registrar
Conference of 7 November 1941 about the Employment of Soviet Russians
The Reich Marshall gave the following directives for the Arbeitseinsatz of the Soviet Russians:
I. The stronger labor reserves in the zone of the interior are also decisive for the war.
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The Russian workers have proved their productive capacity during the development of the huge Russian industry. Therefore it must be made available to the Reich from now on. Objections against this order of the Fuehrer are of the secondary nature. The disadvantages which can be created by the Arbeitseinsatz have to be reduced to a minimum: the task especially of counter-intelligence and security police.
II. The Russian in the zone of operations.
He is to be employed particularly in building roads and railroads, in clearing work, clearing of mines, and in building airports. The German construction battalions have to be dissolved to a great extent (Example: Air Forces!) ; the German skilled workers belong to the war industry; it is not their task to shovel and to break stones, the Russian is there for that.
III. The Russian in the territories of the Reich Commissar and of the General Government.
The same principles apply as in II. Furthermore, stronger utilization in agriculture; if machines are lacking, human hands have to produce what the Reich has to request from the agricultural sector in the East. Furthermore, sufficient native labor has to be provided for the ruthless exploitation of Russian coal mines.
IV. The Russian in the Reich territory including the Protectorate.
The number of the employed depends on the requirement. By determining the requirement, it is to be considered that workers of other states who produce little and eat much are to be shipped out of the Reich and that in the future the German woman should come less into the foreground in the labor process. Beside the Russian prisoners of war, free Russian workers should also be used.
A. The Russian prisoner of war.
1. The selection has to take place already in the collecting camps, beyond the Reich border. The profession and physical condition are decisive. At the same time screening as to nationality and according to the requirements of the security police and counter-intelligence must take place.
2. The transportation has to be organized just as the selection and not improvised. The prisoners are to be forwarded rapidly. Their feeding should be orderly and their guarding unconditionally secured.
3. Officers are to be excluded from the work as much as possible, commissars as a matter of principle.
4. The Russian belongs in first line to the following work places (in order of priorities) :
Mining.
Railroad maintenance (including repair shops and construction of vehicles).
War industry (tanks, artillery pieces, airplane parts).
Agriculture.
Building industry.
Large scale work shops (shoe shops!).
Special units for urgent, occasional and emergency work.
5. The following apply to the method of employment: Principally closed group employment (at least 20). Exceptions only with express permission. In the agriculture in first place the great enterprises come into consideration; besides rotating employment of closed units in small farms day after day. In industry including mining establishments of "Russian enterprises" as an ideal condition (exclusively Russian workers under German supervision) to be striven for.
6. Housing: In closed camps (barracks).
7. Guards: During work, members of the armed forces, but also German workers who have to perform auxiliary police functions. The strictest and fastest activity is decisive for security measures. In general, there are no further steps in the scale of punishment between restriction of food and execution according to martial law.
8. Clothing: Creating of a standardized work suit is to the point. The first clothing is secured according to the High Command of the Armed Forces. Wooden shoes are the rule. Underwear is scarcely known to or customary to the Russians.
9. Rations: The Russian is easily satisfied. Therefore he should be fed lightly and without serious infractions upon our food balance. He should not be spoiled or accustomed to the Ger-. man food, but he should be satisfied and kept in the productive capacity which corresponds to his assignment.
B. The free Russian wo -her.
Employment and treatment will not be handled in practice differently than for Russian prisoners of war. In both categories, particularly good production can be acknowledged by a limited distribution of luxury items. Sufficient, adequate nourishment is also the main thing for the free workers.
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As to the working conditions of the free Russian, the following is to be considered.
1. He can receive a small allowance.
2. His relatives should be provided for.
3. Since his productive power is placed at the disposal of the employer at a cheap price, a financial compensation with the employer is to be taken into consideration.
4. Subjects of the Baltic State who are old residents can receive privileges. At the most their cash allowance can be made equal to the wages which are provided for the Poles who are in the Reich. The general wage standard in the East has to be taken into consideration in this matter. -
5. Ukrainians have no special privileges. The Fuehrer has ordered that in the future they should not be released from war captivity.
6. The Russian employment should under no conditions create a prejudice in the East as to the problem of salaries. Every financial measure taken in this field has to originate from the consideration that the lowest wages in the East, according to a directive of the Fuehrer, are prerequisites for the settlement of the cost of war and for the clearing of the war debts of the Reich after the end of the war.
Infractions will be punished with strictest measures.
This logically applies for every furthering of "social aspirations" in the Russian colonial territory.
7. The Russian free workers obtain a badge which makes them recognizable as such.
V. The Reich Marshall reserves for himself a special decree about the organization of the Russian Arbeitseinsatz, number and obligatory membership, obligatory registration. All recruiting and every shipment which are not conducted through the organization are prohibited. Recruiting and employment of prisoners of war are to be conducted in a unified way and are organizationally to be coupled with one another.
Signed :
von Normann
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