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also Liable to work "on other Reich territory", that means outside
Czechoslovakia.
We may mention.also the Protectorate government order 011
labour duty for youth (Regierungsverordnung ueber die Jugenddienst-
pflicht) of May 28, 1942 Collection No. 187, and execution provisions
by which the labour duty for youth was ordered for inhabitants of
the Protectorate, boys and girls between the ages of 10-18.
On the 2nd February 1943 BERTSCH signed an order mobilising
for war work in Germany all Czech men between 16-65 years and
women between 17-45 years of age as well as certain categories
of school children up to the age of 16.
(d) 19 4 4.
In 1944 the general mobilisation of man-power, both German
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and foreign, was enhanced by a number of steps initiated by
HITLER's decree dated July 25, 1944, stating that GOERING as
President of the Ministerial Council for Reich Defence shall adapt
public life for the requirements of total war and that he shall
propose the name of a plenipotentiary with that object. Dr. GOEB-
BELS was nominated by GOERING for the office and was accordingly
appointed as plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort. This decree
extends the measures for the total mobilisation of man-power also
to the occupied countries.
By HITLER's decree of July 25th, 1944 Martin BORMANN, the
chief of the Chancellery of the NSDAP was directed to give active
support, through the machinery of the Party, to the efforts of
GOEBBELS.
(e) Conclusion.
Czechoslovak nationals were forced, in very great numbers, to do
work in the interest of German war operations, in munition fac-
tories, aircraft factories, factories for the production of other war
material, in transporting men and munitions and other war material
to the fighting fronts of Germany and to complete fortifications of
all kinds.
The number of Czechoslovak citizens who were compelled to
work inside Czechaslovakia runs into millions.
750,000 Czechoslovak citizens were compelled to forced labour
outside the Czechoslovak frontiers in the interest of the German war
machine.