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set up within the region of each Armament Inspectorate to iron out thevarious regional problems arising from the shortage in manpower anamachine replacement parts,, the. .destruction of factories and transportsystems by Allied air raids and so forth. After the boundaries of theArmament Inspectorates (which incidentally coincide with the boundariesof the various 03? Einsatze), were modified, however, to conform roughlywith the boundaries of two Party G-aue, a sub-comnission was established(August 19Vf for each Armament Commission, called Rttstungsunterinspektion(Armament Sub-Commission).At the present time, therefore, there sits in each of the two Gauewhich together make up an Armament Inspectorate area, either anArmament Commission or an Armament Sub-Commission, the latter beingcontrolled by the former. Each OT Einsatzgruppenleiter (OT Chief ofEinsatzgruppe) is the appointed OT member of the various ArmamentCommissions in the area covered by his Einsatzgruppe. The Chief ofEinsatzgruppe normally accredits his subordinate Chiefs of Einsatz ashis representatives to the appropriate Armament Commissions. EachChief of Einsatz is in tupn the appointed OT jnember of the ArmamentSub-Commission in the area of his Einsatz. He, like the Chief ofEinsatzgruppe, normally delegates someone to take his place, this timeat the sittings of the Sub-Commission, the delegate usually being oneof the four OT Construction Deputies (Einsatz level; accredited to theReichsverteidigungskommissar (Reich Defence Commissioner) of the competentGau. The subject of OT regional liaison with the ArmamentInspectorate, Armament Coianissions and sub-Commissions, and the ReichDefence Coianissions has also been discussed in IlAb34. It should beadded here, however, that recently OT liaison has been carried downbelow OT Einsatz-Armament Inspectorate level, that is to say, liaisonhas now also been established (January 1945) between the OT Oberbauleitungand the Rdstungskommando (Armament Headquarters).87. Army-OT Administrative Channels of Liaison,(i) EGW area as of summer, 1944*The chief administrative army officials in the one-time EinsatzgruppeWest were the military conmanders, or rather administrators, ofFrance (STtfLPNAGEL) of Belgium and N.W. Prance (v. PALKENHAUSEN) and ofHolland (CHRISTIANSEN). Their main concern with the OT consisted incirculating and supervising regilations which had already been laiddown by existing government agencies. The most common object of concernwas OT manpower. OT manpower, even though it is termed WehrmachtAuxiliary, is basically subject to manpower distribution control byGerman Labour authorities as represented at the top by Fritz S.AUCKEL.When the military commander therefore circulates, for example, a regulationforbidding unsanctioned transfers of manpower from one OT-Firmto another, he does it on the basis of the existing regulations on thesubject already laid down by OT Labour Trustee SCHMELTER, who representsthe OT on SAUCKEL' s staff.Similarly, regulations circulated by military commanders on theprice tariff for the requisitioning of construction equipment originallyemanate from the offices of the Reichskommisar fur Preisbildung. (Reichcommissioner for Price Control).The supervision of these regulations was left to the local Feldkomnandarrturen,the geographical sphere of authority of which in Franceroughly corresponded with the French Departements (Prance is dividedinto 35 Departements). The Feldkommandant'3 disciplinary authority inregard to OT personnel extended to all but serious court-martialoffenses which came under the competence of the divisional canmardinggeneral stationed in the corresponding sector. Nor did the Feldjccmmandantencroach on OT's^own disciplinary powers which consisted••essentially of sending refractory workers to disciplinary camps suchas Erziehungs- or Schulungslager (Disciplinary Camps). The Feldkommandanturwas the army administrative echelon in that it co-operated 'directly with the OBL administratively, just as the FestungsbauPionierstab co-operated directly with the OBL operationally. Moreoverthe Feldkommandantur^^rance by controlling the French Departement '