TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 407-VIII-PS

The Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan The Plenipotentiary for Arbeitseinsatz
Berlin W8, Mohrenstr 65 (Thuringenhaus) 17 May 1943
Tel: 12 65 71
To the Telegraph Office of the Party Chancellery Berlin W8
Gauleiter Sauckel requests that the following telegram be transmitted to the Fuehrer and to the Reich Marshal of the Greater German Reich.
By direction
Heil Hitler!
[signature illegible]
a. To the Fuehrer, Fuehrer Headquarters
b. To the Reich Marshal for the Greater German Reich, Headquarters
to a. My Fuehrer!
to b. Most respected Reich Marshal!
In regard to the Arbeitseinsatz in connection with the Organization Todt, I request that I be permitted to submit the following figures:
In addition to the labor allotted to the total German economy by the Arbeitseinsatz since I took office, the Organization Todt was supplied with new labor continually. The total number of laborers employed by the OT amounted to 270,969 at the end of March 1942 and 696,003 at the end of March 1943.
In this it is noteworthy that the Arbeitseinsatz has accelerated the OT in the West for the purpose of completing the work on the Atlantic Wall and has furnished laborers with utmost energy. This is all the more remarkable because:
1. In France, Belgium and Holland the industries work for the German war economy exclusively, and must always be supplied with labor in any case;
2. Great numbers of workers must be placed at the disposal of the German economy within the Reich itself.
In spite of the attendant difficulties the supply of the OT in the west was raised from 66,701 at the end of March 1942 to 248,200 at the end of March 1943.
Thus the Arbeitseinsatz has done everything to help make possible the completion of the Atlantic Wall.
to a Heil Hitler!
' Your obedient and faithful
Fritz Sauckel
to b Your continually obliged
Fritz Saukel
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