According to what I have found out the statistics of December 31, 1942 have already shown an unfulfilled demand of 15% in plant protection personnel. Moreover, the extension of the air force industry brings about a further increase in the requirements for plant protection personnel, an increase which up to now has not been covered by the labor offices.
"An investigation I made in a number of plants of the air force industry a short while ago has shown that even after the introduction of the compulsory labor law most of the labor offices could not make the necessary forces available for protection and fire guard tasks, while other labor agencies could not entirely satisfy the needs. The labor office of Halberstadt has even refused to deal with this requirement because these men were required for organizations without productive value.
"In the field of the air force industry I already ordered, at the beginning of the war, the 84 hour week for these sectors. So that no further increase can be made with these working hours, for otherwise, there would be an increase of illness which would bring about a further unwarranted weakening in the numbers of the personnel. Even the decree for the securing of the necessary forces of protectory guards, issued by you on December 29, 1942, has not yet shown any results up to now in the Field of Armament Industry.
"Therefore, you are urgently requested to direct the labor offices to place at the disposal of the armament plants, upon their request as quickly as possible the competent forces for plant protection and fire guards, because otherwise normal security in the plants does not seem to be guaranteed any longer.
"In the field of the air force industry this would involve approximately 2500 to 3000 men.
"We ask you to kindly inform us about the steps taken."
MR. DENNEY: Turning now to the meeting of the Central Planning Board, the 36th Session, which appears in document book A at pages 16 to 26. This meeting was held on 22 April 1943. Starting at page 2106, page 16 of Document book A, Exhibit 48 A, Speer speaking:
"Throughout the winter we have seen that in the last instance it is coal which provides the basis for all plans which we wish to execute in other respects, and most of you are also aware of our intention to increase the manufacture of iron. Here also it will again be coal which in the last instance will tip the scales, whether or not we shall be able to accomplish this increase of iron production. Seen from the Central Planning, we are of the opinion that the demand for coal as well as the demand for iron ought to be co-ordinated in a separate plan, and that this plan ought to receive about the same degree of urgency as the Krauch-plan, and that with regard to labor, the conditions required for the execution of that plan trust be established. Perhaps Dr. Timm will be able to state how he expects the question of the miners to be developed; unfortunately the miners cannot be taken from the German reservoir, in their place we shall have to use very strong foreigners. I might add at this point that Dr. Timm was the Deputy of Sauckel, who was head of the German Labor Procurement.
"TIMM: at the moment, 69,000 men are needed for hauling that coal. We want to cover this by finding within the Reich 23,000 men, that is, healthy prisoners of war, etc. who are especially suitable for mining and by dispatching 50,000 Poles from the General Government. Out of these about 30,000 men have been supplied up to April 24th, so that about 39,000 men are still outstanding for January to April."
It certainly doesn't look as there are any voluntary laborers as Mr. Timm is speaking about.
"The demand for May has been reported to us as being 35,700. The difficulties existed especially with regard to recruitment in the General Government, since in every district surrounding Germany there is an extraordinary resistance to recruitment.
In all countries we have to change ever more or less to registering the men by age groups and to conscripting them in age groups. They do not appear for registering as such, but as soon as transport is available, they do not come back so that the dispatch of the men has become more or less a question for the police. Especially in Poland the situation at the moment is extraordinarily serious. It is well known that vehement battles occurred just because of these actions. The resistance against the administration established by us is very strong. Quite a number of our men have been exposed to increased dangers, and it was just in the last two or three weeks that some of them were shot dead, for example, the Head of the Labor Office at Warsaw, who was shot in his office, and yesterday another man again. This is how matters stand presently, and the recruiting itself even if done with the best will remains extremely difficult unless police reinforcement are at hand. It certainly does not seem as though there are any voluntary laborers amongst those whom Timm is speaking about.
"It was expected that at the end of the month 50,000 men should have arrived from the General Government. Unfortunately, this could not be done. Only three or four thousand of them have arrived, and 8,000 more are on the way, so that the gap is rather considerable.
"SPEER: Of these men one can indeed only absorb a portion each month.
"SOGEMEIER: We have provided a plan for stages April 26,000, May 30,000, June 30,000, July 50,000, and September 56,000. If the men arrive in these stages and numbers, we should be able to reach the 290 millions of tons, provided that no miners are otherwise called up.
"SPEER: Are these additional labor supplies? Are these numbers which you wish to build up:
"TIMM: Yes, they include the losses which we expect.
"MILCH: Yes, including the 70,000.
"SPEER: I take it that the losses are included in these numbers?
"TIMM: Yes, this is not building up but distribution, if I understand rightly. As said before, we hope to dispatch within the next month 50,000 men from the General Government including the men shifted from other industries.
This page seems to have been omitted from Dr. Bergold's book. I think you are getting them now. We can pick up with the second sentence -198a in Timms speech there.
Do you have that?
"Including the men shifted from other districts there will be 73,000 which should cover the first two months. It would be very difficult for us to increase the number in the next two months, since we have to provide agriculture with the remaining requirements which are due within the next two months, whereas in the months beginning with June the need of agricultural labor can be satisfied much easier by measures taken inside Germany. In the harvest months German labor can be called up for assistance. Only during the season for the harvesting of root vegetables is the situation difficult.
"After what General Commissioner Sauckel found out in the East during his new completed tour of inspection, it would be possible to dispose of more Russian labor again in the ensuing months. How many of them will be men, can at the moment hardly be guessed, since it is the army especially who wishes to release women from the East, but to keep the men there because they are needed for all kinds of urgent work.
"SPEER: May I propose an inquiry on the question as to what Russian laborers are used at the moment as auxiliary laborers in the armament factories, in essential war business or otherwise? This should be done separately from these who in the meantime have learned a trade. We can indirectly exchange auxiliary industry workers with Russian women, and we will be able in this way to provide the mining industry with Russian prisoners of war who now do clearing up labor in the courtyards.
"TIMM: I would also propose such indirect exchange for the essential industry as well.
"SPEER: The towns also were provided some time ago with Russian prisoners-of-war for sweeping roads, etc.
"TIMM: Not many will be found there. If we look for greater numbers of prisoners-of-war we shall find them repairing tracks at the railways, and it will not be easy to extract them there, since they need grown-up and vigorous men.
"SPEER: But the Russian women do that kind of work.
"GANZEMMUELLER: We need the men, and it is out of the question to extract men from there. We use them now as railway guards also, and we have to do this, since no other people are available.
"TIMM: Then we are going to draw up a statement showing where Russian prisoners-of-war and civilians are still used anywhere in the industry, except those who are employed after having gone through training.
"SPEER: Including also the agriculture. Trained people cannot be extracted. I should object at once in my capacity as General Commissioner for Armaments, if now trained men would be extracted again from the armament factories. The works manager will go slowly if he has to train new people over and over again. But to extract in order to send them to the mines, their employers must receive other laborers in exchange.
"ROHLAND: This would be impossible for the foundries. We need 35,000 additional women, whom we could employ at once, but we do not get them. We have already assented to the exchange of 35,000 eastern laborers, but we must get them as soon as the mining industry gets its men. This is understood.
"SOGIMEIER: This labor demand applies solely to pit-coal. As to lignite, we need an additional 25,000 men in the course of the next months.
"SPEER: This is exactly the same in the other mining industries including ore.
"KEHRL: 85% are needed for coal-pits, the remaining mining industry ought to get additions in proportion.
"SPEER: You should add up the numbers. We cannot approach the Reich Marshal with numbers for a single industry.
"TIMM: altogether it amounts to 70,000 for coal and 14,000 for the remaining mines, potassium included.
"SPEER: We do it that way; Kehrl collects the demands for labor necessary to complete the coal and iron plan and communicates the numbers to sauckel. Probably there will be a conference at the Reich Marshal's in the next week, and an answer from Sauckel should have arrived by then. The question of recruitment for the armaments industry will be solved together with Weger.
"KEHRL: I wish to urge that the allotments to the mines should not be made dependent on the recruitment of men abroad. We were completely frustrated these last three months because this principle had been applied. We ended December with a deficit of 25,000 and we never get replacements. The number must be made up by men from Germany.
"SPEER: No, nothing doing!" They won't employ Germans.
"KEHRL: We are completely stuck. I wish to point out that for a year now we feed the mining industry with promises only, and always are we pressed by the pits. They have received only half of the amount they were promised last year.
SPEER: That they were only put off is not true. It was something, too, which they got in the meantime. Let us not hide our candle under the bushel.
KEHRL: If all is said and done, we are in such a precarious situation that trouble is certain if one considers the ever increased program of the armament industry. No, we have drawn the plan for May. This plan cannot in fact be executed, since the 1st of May is a holiday. The other day already we did not know how we could make it right."
The next figure that appears is 300,000 tons, but I think it must be 80,000 -- "tons of coal fall out by reason of observing the 1st May. Compared with such numbers we are not served by a slow increase in haulage. The mines must receive their allotment in one stroke.
SPEER: Out of the question. If Sauckel is able to promise the amount which he tries to get..........
TIMM: He quite expressly stated he cannot promise to dispatch 50,000 men from the General Government.
SPEER: But Russia has to be added to it.
TIMM: Owing to the military events the influx which we had up to December has stopped at once. We received formerly 10-12,000 men in the three last months, 60,000 altogether. This is how the number has gone down.
KEHRL: We now have to touch the reserve which we cannot miss on the other side. Pleiger some time ago wired Sauckel, and reports like that from the Foundry East also came from other works.
"SPEER: This has been clarified already by an ordinance --"
Do you you have it, Dr. Bergold?
DR. BERGOLD: No.
MR. DENNEY: In the speech of Timm it starts out "Owing to the mili tary events -- Owing to the military event the influx which we had up to December has stopped at once.
We received formerly 10-12,000 men in the three last months, 60,000 altogether. This is how the number has gone down.
KEHRL: We now have to touch the reserve which we cannot miss on the other side. Pleiger some time ago wired Sauckel, and reports like that from the Foundry East also came from other works.
SPEER: This has been clarified already by an ordinance and a letter from me to Sauckel; from the coal pits, the foundries and the Ivan-program as such no labor will be extracted, and from the age groups only the auxiliary laborers who can be taken at the spot from the 3 - 4 age groups in question.
KEHRL: In this case the labor again will be taken from agriculture.
SPEER: In relation to the whole of the population the number employed by the "Mountain Foundry East" is immaterial.
TIMM: The Gauleiter returned this morning after he spent seven days on the other side, and told me on the telephone he had spoken there with all competent authorities and they promised him to deliver until August a number not far below one million, consisting of men and women. Nobody can predict how many will be men.
KEHRL: The far greater number will be women.
SPEER: These women we can use in the Reich. There are a great number of Russian prisoners of war and laborers who are employed at places where they need not be employed. There can be an exchange. The only thing is to do this with unskilled workers, and not to take the workers from the industry where they were trained with difficulty.
"KEHRL: Where we are late in completion of a task, or where we lose an opportunity, we can make up for it. But any coal which we cannot haul at once is definitely lost for use in this war. This is why we cannot do enough to force the allotment to the pits.
SPEER: But not by forcible actions in smashing what we toilsomely built.
(KEHRL: We need not do that.) You ought to add the conscripted labor.
TIMM: We must endeavor to get German men for working at the coalface.
KEHRL: We subsist on foreigners who live in Germany.
TIMM: These men are concentrated within a very small area. Otherwise there might be trouble in this sector.
SPEER: There is a specified statement showing in what sectors the Russian prisoners of war have been distributed, and this statement is quite interesting. It shows that the armaments industry only received 30%. I always complained about this.
TIMM: The highest percentage of Prisoners of War are Frenchmen, and one ought not to forget that it is difficult to employ them at the coalface. The number of Russians living within the Reich is small.
ROHLAND: In the mines one should exclusively use eastern people, not western ones.
SPEER: The western men collapse.
SOGEMEIER: May I point out how much we are on the way down: In comparison with the end of February, before the start of the SE-action, we lost every day 40,000 tons of pit coal, only because we did not get replacements for the allotment promised to us; we were supposed to have our losses replaced in the proportion of 2 for 0. The proportion is still 1 for 1.
"SPEER: I have been given a note according to which the mines received in the first quarter of 1943, therefore at the same time when the call-ups took place, an additional 18,000 men.
SOGEMEIER: At the beginning of the year we had still to receive out of earlier demands about 26,000 men. To that number there are to be added 26,000 men owing to the SE-action, if we take a proportion of 1 for 1. The Central Planning had promised us in March 15,000 men for use in a planned increase of haulage. Altogether we received only 18,000 men. This means that in fact we had not even the remainder of the request for the preceding year, and moreover that we had not yet received replacements for the SE-action in proportion of 1 for 1. Now Field Marshal Keitel wants to know whether the mining industry was in a position to release another 14,000 men.
In our present situation this is entirely out of the question. If we lose another 14,000 men they could be taken only from the most vigorous age groups of the coal face workers. It is easy to calculate to what extent the haulage would go down in such a case. We urgently ask to protect us from further calling-up in the mining industry.
SPEER: At least it cannot be undertaken until replacement labor is available in such a way that they all have been trained. It cannot be done at a moment's notice.
KEHRL: Before August we cannot discuss such a thing. A decrease of 40,000 tons a day means a yearly deficit of 14 million tons.
SPEER: Timm will find out in collaboration with Wager and the District Economy Office where Russians suitable for mining are still employed as auxiliary laborers. They will be exchanged man for man against Russian women or other replacements received by us and suitable for their work, and the Russians will be turned over to the mining industry. I would only be preferable to make a preliminary examination of these men, since of the people engaged we always found only one half of them to be really suitable. The pre-examination of these men in the factories should set a stricter standard. After the final numbers have been found out and discussed with Timm, a detailed statement has to be prepared for use in the Reich Marshal's conference.
"SOGEMEIER: May I put a question connected with this matter? Russians are still being combed out from the mining industry who had been more or less trained metal workers. This leads to difficulties, since Russian prisoners of war, when they learn of this fact, come forward at once and state they had been metal workers.
SPEER: The intention was to comb out these Russians solely for use in the industry which services the needs of the mining industry. This is clearly stated with regard to the mines. In that case you surely have no objections?
"SOGEMEIER: No, if the industry which serves the mines is receiving them, I do not object.
"KEHRL: In case of doubt the serving industry is not getting them. As soon as they are discovered, the Russians are snatched away for more urgent work. For instance, we have experienced that people while being on their way to us have been redirected when they had arrived in Cologne. Only a certain percentage of then arrive as a rule, a rather high percentage is taken away for different use.
"SPEER: But the number of men released as metal workers is established. Therefore, it must be possible to find out how many of these men have arrived at the serving industry. You are able to find that out, Mr. Sogemeier. We on our part had agreed with Sauckel that they are to be extracted solely for the serving industry. This was in compliance with Pleiger's express request to that effect.
"SPEER: In any case we ought to force the coal production with all our power.
"I have here a statement on the distribution of the Soviet prisoners. There are 368,000 altogether Of these are: 101,000 in agriculture, 94,000 in the mining industry, who are not available in any case, 15,000 in the building materials industry, 26,000 in iron and metal production where they cannot be extracted either, 29,000 in the manufacture of iron, steel, and metal goods, 63,000 in the manufacture of machines, boilers, and cars and similar appliances, which means the armaments industry and 10,000 in the chemical industry. Agriculture thus has received by far the most of them, and the men employed there could in the course of time be exchanged for women. The 90,000 Russian prisoners of war employed in the whole of the armaments industry are for the greatest part skilled men. If you can extract 8 - 10,000 men from there, it would already be the limit.
"KEHRL: Would it not be possible to add Serbians, etc?
"SOGEMEIER: We ought not to mix them too much.
ROHLAND: For God's sake, no Serbians! We had very bad experiences with mixing.
SPEER: We distribute by starting from a production of 290 million tons which is quite considerable. If the conditions on which such a production can be reached cannot be fulfilled, this will influence the supply of household coal to a very great extent. This we ought to point out to Sauckel, that is, that the psychological effect on the population will be a considerable one in case he cannot provide the necessary labor.
"MEINBERG: Especially since the transports of laborers always arrive 1½ months later than promised; for this means a loss of 10% production intended to be accomplished by the additional laborers. In that case the 290 million tons can never be reached, but 280 million at the most. The deal alone in supplying the labor has that effect.
SPEER: What are your proposals for our further action, Kehrl?
KEHRL: If the labor supply is secured by appropriate measures we have no problems as to its distribution. This problem for distribution, however, is insulable, if we have to distribute the labor for a production of less than 295 million tons, that is, if we produce less than 282 million tons. According to what Timm just said and what we have discussed, we shall not reach our goal. He wants to take 22,000 men from inner Germany, moreover 10,000 Russian Prisoners of War, altogether 32,000. To supply the rest, we wait for God in Heaven and the General Government. Judging by our earlier experience, we shall not get them. The gentlemen of the General had to cancel the recruitment owing to the danger for their lives, since they were unable to recruit at all in certain areas. The least we have to reckon with are therefore great delays, and each delay means great loss of production because there is less hauling.
TIMM: All these numbers are estimates, and nobody can guarantee their correctness. I made a point of mentioning the difficulties. But I am enough of an optimist to believe that we shall be able to attain these numbers. I also said we hope to supply in May the outstanding labor from the General Government despite all the difficulties. If one es timates pessimistically one never arrives at a conclusion.
KEHRL: Our risk with regard to coal, however, is too great. All honor to the optimist, but it seems out of the question that we could get as much as we need. We cannot affort to take a risk in this matter.
SPEER: Who is in a position to give you a guarantee for a 100% certainty?
KEHRL: We have to employ the men who are already in this country. This is the only possible guarantee.
SPEER: Absolutely out of the question.
KEHRL: (continues) In relation to the number of men already working for us the 20,000 to 30,000 men whom we wish to extract are a very small number. They are of decisive importance for the entire industry. We employ altogether 24 million men. If we extract 25,000 directly from our people, this does mean nothing for he manufactures, but would decisively benefit the whole of industry.
SPEER: Out of the question!
"SCHIEBER: In my opinion the General Commissioner for Labor ought to proceed in the following manner: Action to bring about the immediate release of at least 30,000 laborers from agriculture who will be supplied to the coal mines. In exchange, agriculture which is anyway in urgent need of additional female labor, receives any female labor who arrive. In my opinion the mines today can be supplied only from the sole real reserve of vigorous foreign men which we still have viz. from agriculture. These men are also well fed and able to do real work.
SPEER: Everything depends on the amount of the influx from abroad.
SCHIEBER: If anyway nothing arrives, the mines certainly will get nothing.
TIMM: Gauleiter Sauckel is perfectly convinced that the transports will be on their way within a short time. Now the front has been consolidated at last.
SCHIEBER: We ought to be grateful that the weather has allowed the farmer to keep things going in some way despite the little labor being available to him. For the farmer, the coal supply is just as important as for the whole of the armaments industry, when we discuss tomorrow the nitrogen problem we shall see the same. Our first, need is coal.
KOERNER: On the 1st of April we had in agriculture a deficit of about 600,000 laborers. It had been planned to cover it by supplying labor from the east, mainly women. These laborers will first have to be supplied until other laborers are released from agriculture. We are just entering the season where the heaviest work in the fields has to be done, for which many laborers are necessary. Much labor is needed for the hoeing of the fruits, and it is to be hoped that this year the harvest can be started early which would be rendered much more difficult if an exchange of labor would have to take place.
KEHRL: Relatively considered, agriculture is much better provided with labor than the mines. They are still able to undertake improvements which they could not have undertaken in peace-time. We of the mines, on the other hand, have to fight for 20 to 30,000 men. It should not be possible to raise this number out oi the 24 millions? The mines are in a bad position because they en use only certain categories of workers. They are fed with hopes of the men promised from the General Government, or of Russians. But if these men do not arrive?
SOGEMEIER: The 30,000 men are but replacements for the men extracted by the SE-action. If we get them we can just haul 260 million tons, in the best possible case, 275 million tons. Therefore, we need more men than the 30,000.
KEHRL: I meant this number in an additional sense: Added 30,000 men to those expected from the General Government.
SPEER: How is the situation in the Protectorate, Mr. Timm? Can we not extract anything from there?
TIMM: Discussions on this question had been planned, but were cancelled because of the intended shifting of orders for manufacture in the Protectorate.
MR DENNEY: If the court please, I shall now give the interpreter the English copy which they can use for interpreting there, and shall give the photostatic copy in German to them. Now continuing "SPEER:
Despite this shifting, the manpower reservoir is still of such size that some could be extracted. Apart from this, we are not in a position to shift orders at wish, but we are already hampered by the power question.
TIMM: This is exactly what we expected. But the discussions planned to take place in Prague, have been cancelled.
SPEER: The local authorities always maintain that nothing can be released.
TIMM: We wanted the discussions in Prague, since we had examined the position and found out that there are far too many skilled workers in some places and that many workers could be extracted. But subsequently we were told by the Ministry, the conference was cancelled because the shifting made it necessary to employ all available labor.
WEGER: General Daluege and Gauleiter Sauckel especially wished that you, Mr. Minister, took part in the conference. I agree with Timm, and told Hoersekamp that I do not doubt he could release labor from the General Government despite the shifting, because the power question will not be solved in the Protectorate until next year, and the year after. Until that time he can not even use so much labor. Therefore he ought to release some in any case.
MILCH: We ought to except certain areas of the Protectorate to which the orders are being directed, and nothing extract there until a surplus is found out subsequently. For the time being it can not be ascertained. There are enough Court.
No. 2 other areas of the Protectorate which are not affected by the industry plan and some labor could be extracted from them at once.
We ought to name the places which are excepted from our action.
TIMM: In this the authorities on the other side ought to participate. They are in the best position to tell the places from where nothing must be extracted.
MILCH: If one proceeds as I proposed, and Timm agreed to it, no damage can be done. This ought to be done in any case. For the rest I completely agree. We must now supply the mines with labor. The greatest part of labor which we can supply from the East will indeed be women. But the eastern women are quite accustomed to agricultural work, and especially to the type of work which has to be done these coming weeks, the hoeing and transplanting of turnips, etc. The women are quite suitable for this. One thing has to be considered. First, you must supply agriculture with the women, then you can extract the men, laborer for laborer. It is not the right thing if first the men are taken away, and the farmers are left without labor for 4 to 6 weeks. If the women arrive after such time they arrive too late.
SPEER: Beyond this we are prepared to release from all parts of the war economy in exchange for women, any Russian P/W, or other Russian who is employed as auxiliary laborer.
MR. DENNEY: The next meeting to which we come is on 23 July -- however, before that there is a Hitler conference which appears on page 38 of Document Book No. 3-A; a note made by Speer on 10 July 1943, in a discussion with Hitler on 8 July 1943, which appears at page 38 in the Document Book No. 3-A, as follows: "The Fuehrer laid down in the coal discussion that 70,000 Russian prisoners of war fit for mining work should be sent each month to the mines. He also pointed out that an approximate minimum of 150,000 - 200,000 fit Russian prisoners of war must be earmarked for the mines in order to obtain the required number of men suitable for this work. If the Russian prisoners of war can not be released by the Army, the male population in the partisan infested areas should without distinction --"
That is our page 37. I don't know what is the German page. It must he 82, 83, or 84, perhaps, in Book 3-A. I have read down to the end of the first paragraph, if you want to read that.
Do you want to read in German the first paragraph, and then we can pick up the second paragraph.
"If the Russian prisoners of war cannot be released by the Army, the male population in the partisan infested areas should without distinction he proclaimed prisoners of war and sent off to the mines.
"The Fuehrer ordered at the same time that these prisoners of war who are not fit for the mines should immediately he placed in the iron industry, in manufacturing and supply industries and in the armament industry.
"The Fuehrer further ordered that he should receive a monthly report giving:
(A) The total number of Russian prisoners of war.
(B) The number of Russian prisoners of war fit for mining, who have been made available for the mines and a report addressed to Field Marshal Keitel as to why the remainder could not be used.
"The joint report of Sauckel and Pleiger is also to he sent to me."
Then we cone to the 42nd meeting of the Central Planning, which appears at pages 27 and 28 of Document Book A - that is marked the 59th meeting by inadvertence in the German book, but actually it is a copy of the 42nd meeting, and on page 54 of the German document book.
Here's a page -- it appears on Page 27 of the English book. These are the results of the meeting, typed or signed by one Dr. Gramsch, and the list on Page 28 indicates that the defendant was present. This meeting was held on the 23 of June 1943.
"The manpower situation in the coal mining industry, particularly in the hard coal mining industry, is still unsatisfactory, and necessitates an extension of the measures decided upon at the 36th session of the Central Planning Board, held on the 22nd April 1943.
"The intensive discussion yielded as the most expedient solution the use of Russian prisoners of war to fill the existing vacancies. The more homogeneous character of the shifts will" -- The original hasn't come back from the document room, so at this time we will pass the reading up of the 42nd meeting due to the fact that Dr. Bergold doesn't have a copy of it and the interpreters.
And the next document is 1292-PS which appears in Document Book 2-B, Page 60 and on Page 106 of the German translation. We offer this as Exhibit No. 50, being Document 1292-PS: A Sauckel letter to Lammers, dated 5 January 1944, being a report of a Hitler meeting with reference to the allocation of labor.
THE PRESIDENT: On what page?
MR. DENNEY: Page 60 of 2-B, Sir. This is dated. 5 January 1942 and is to Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery, Dr. Lammers, written by Gauleiter Sauckel, the General Plenipotentiary for Labor.
THE PRESIDENT: Is it 1942 or '44?
MR. DENNEY: '44, Sir; I am sorry.
"I herewith beg to be permitted to submit to you the following notes about the result of yesterday's conference of the chiefs at the Fuehrer's.
"I further ask you to confirm this result on your part to the chiefs who took part in the conference and to be so kind as to support me in the introduction of the measures which have become necessary as a result of the conference.
"1. The chief subject of the conference was the minimum requirement for workers to be expected in 1944.
"After listening to the participants in the conference, the Fuehrer ruled:
"a) In order to maintain employment at its present level in the entire war economy including agriculture or in order to compensate for losses due to drafting into the Wehrmacht, death, illness, expiration of contracts, etc., it is necessary to make available 2,500,000 workers.
"b) In order to replenish factories which are to carry out additional armament tasks special Fuehrer programs, it is necessary to make available 1,300,000 for Reich Minister Speer.
"c) In order to fulfill requests of the Fuehrer concerning air raid shelters 250,000 workers are needed.
"Total: 4,050,000.
"2. For the purpose of mobilizing reserves of strength of German workers and of foreigners working in Germany, the G.B.A. submitted the suggestion that an effective incentive for an increased output be created by granting food premiums and other advantages. The execution of this suggestion, the practicability of which was recognized unanimously, encounters considerable difficulties due to the fact that the necessary additional food can hardly be raised from German reserves. The Fuehrer held out the prospect of succeeding in making available the necessary products by personally contacting Marshal Antonescue.
"3. The Fuehrer commissioned the G.B.A. on his part to contact the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs in order to be able to prepare the mobilization of the necessary foreign workers with the utmost speed.
"4. The Fuehrer ruled that the workers employed in the French armament industries by Reich Minister Speer should be protected against a removal.
"5. The Fuehrer pointed out that it was necessary to convince all German offices in the occupied territories and in the axis satellite countries of the necessity of employing foreign workers in order to enable them to assist the G.B.A. in carrying out the necessary organizational, propagantistic and police measures.