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• The importance of accurate selection is evident from the
aim - to create an efficient body of tradesmen. The number of
trainees will be determined centrally. For your information,
it can now be stated that this does not depend, on present
requirements but exclusively on tasks planned for the future.
One project may be mentioned as an example - Wewelsburg. On
orders from the Reichsfahrer SS (C-in-C of the SS) , this project
will be carried out on a large scale immediately after the war.
On this one project, the Reichsftihrer requires that at least'
1,000 qualified masons be employed. The need for other quAl l fled
workers is thus - self-evident. Beyond that, reference must be
made to the camps to be erected in the new Eastera spheres which
have yet to be organised and whose manpower will be employed for
the great reconstruction works in the East. A reserve of tradesworkers
for these camps, to be used in the fulfilment of future
tasks, :rust now be formed. Por the accomplishment of this, the
following command. seems fitting: 'Every fit HB.ftlinge a
Facharbeiter (specialist trade-worker)
These tasks must be instituted with the greatest energy and
enthusiasm and must command the most far-reaching preparations.
The facilities for this training will vary with each camp. Hence,
the degree to which the proposed aim will be attained, both in
detail and in its entirety, will depend, in spite of basic training
policies, upOn the adaptability and initiative of my colleagues."
14. Pifrther e in Concentration Camp Administration
Further administrative developments took place in February
1942. The allocation of labour in the concentration camps was
placed under the supervision of the Camp Commandants and. the
post of Schutzhaftlagerftihrer E was abolished. Now, for the
first time, reference is made not to Verwaltungs-u. Wirtschattshauptamt,
but to Wirtschafts- u. Verwaltungshauptamt. The last
order signed by the Inspekteur der Konzentrationslagr was in
March 194.2. It was at the end of this month that the final
reorganisation of the SS-WVHA took place and the office of
_m_ste_d_
In el ur der Konzentrationslagsr was transformed to '.Amtsg-rpe,
D'. Since that time, the present organisation has been in
existence.
POHL, who was Chef des Hauptamtes Haugha.lt und Bauten,
became Hauptamtchef WVHA or Chef des Wirtschafts-u. Verwaltun s-
hauptamt (Chief of SS Economic and. Administrative Department);
LORNER, who was Chef des .Amtes I, became sgntpenchef (Chief
of . Suppiy); and FRANK, who was Chef des Verwaltun salutes, became
Amtsgruppenchef W (Chief of Economic Enterprises).
Amtsgruppe W (EconomiC Enterprises) is the department of the
*YVHA
l which supervises SS Economic Enterprises, for which prison
labour is employed (for complete breakdown of .Amtsgruppe W and
all Enterprises controlled by it and using Camp labour see
IIDS/G/8). Most camps use the labour of their inmates, and in
some cases factories have been built within the camps. • Where it
is not expedient to set up an SS enterprise within the camp, the
camp labour is farmed out• to private firms or Used on sub-contract
work. Thus the concentration camps give the SS a virtually
inexhaustible source of cheap and expendable labour (See Pariexe C).
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