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d) Operational Liaison.96. German Agencies.Only operational liaison other than Army, Air Force or Navy isdiscussed in this section. For liaison with the Wehrmacht see IlGaabove.(i) NSKK (Nazionalsozialistisches Kraftfahr Korps ­National Socialist Motor Corps.)The working arrangement between the NSKK and theOT as expressedby the incorporation of NSKK transportation units into OT, first underthe designation of Kraftwagenleitung West (Motor Vehicle Comnand West),then respectively under the designations of NSKK - (Motor) TransportstanflarteTODT, NSKK (Motor) Transport brigade TODT, NSKK (Motor)Transportgruppe TODT or simply NSKK - Gruppe TODT "are fully discussedin IlPb. (The designations NSKK. - Baustab SPEER, NSKK (Motor) Trans-.portstandarte SPEER, NSKK (M*otor) Transport brigade SPEER. Legion SPEER,NSKK - Transport brigade Luft, or NSKK - Mot or gruppe Luftwaffe, andTransportfloibte SP5SER are likewise discussed. there). Until rece ntlythe transport branch of the OT was very frequently also referred to asNSKK - Transporgruppe SHEER, or simply as NSKK - Gruppe SEEER.Tranaportkorps SPEER seems to be the latest - and ofricial - designationfor the same unit. For individual OT-NSKK liaison assignments, see thelis t in IIGE105.(ii)RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst - Reich Labour Service)Up to the present time no indication has been found linking the RAPto the OT in any other way except that RAD personnel has performedunskilled and possibly semi-skilled labour under the direction of theOT. Thus RAD units have on occasion been detailed to perform excavationwork on OT construction sites, especially in connection with the constructionof air raid shelters and AA installations in general. SuchRAD units remain however administratively independent, nor canOT controlthe movements of RAD units beyond putting in a request to the RADauthorities. Inasmuch as the OT rates a very high priority, suchrequests are not usually refused. The earliest instance of the abovetype of co-operation occurred in 1938 when TODT took over the constructionof the West Wall. At that time approximately 100,000 RAD personnelwere temporarily detailed to the OT. When OT began to acquire foreignmanpower, the RAP reverted to work for the Air Foroe and Navy and inlesser numbers to the Army mainly in the communications zone. When theOT took over all Wehrmacht construction facilities in the sunmer of 1944,relations between the two organizations evolved into an arrangementwhereby the RAD operationally became more and more subordinate to the OT,At the present tine, the RAD 1 s status is that of an organization whosepersonnel has been turned over to Army authorities for the duration ofthe war, "for operational training purposes". Thus it is placed atpresent under HIMMLER's command in his capacity of Commander-in-Chiefof the Replacement and Training Army. In some measure RAD's formertasks have been taken over by the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth Movement,see below) and the Volksstum.(iii ) HJ (Hitler Jugsnd Hitler Youth Movement)There are so far no indications of aoy formal link between the ft)and, the OT, &al i t i s very much doubted whether any are contemplated,as long as politioelly and morally unreliable elements, especiallyforeign elements, form part of OT personnel. The natural trend seemsto be for the HJ to replace, in some measure, RAD personnel in thedigging of emergency defence earthworks behind the lines, and similarauxiliary tasks. The possibility that the Nazis may employ HJ formationsin conjunction with OT elements - in a "mountain retreat" should at thisstage, however, not be discounted without further consideration.