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sche Nothilfe - Technical Tanarfienov Corps)Co-operation bet-ween OT ana Teno is on a higher operational levelthan co-operation between the OT and the RAD. By far the most commonoccasion for co-operation occurs in case of air-raid damage to publicutility and power installations in crowded cities. In these cases itis the Teno which provides the teohnioal direction, while OT performsthe skilled mechanical labour. It is quite possible that the OT notonly repairs but actually operates vital plants, such as synthetic oilplants, under Teno direction.Since Teno personnel are generally mature men normally employedin key technical positions, they are mostly early Nazi Party members.Besid© their functions of technical control, they are invested as partof the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo : Regular police) with authority to controlany mass action, containing signs of an incipient uprising. In additiontheir technical training facilitates discovery of sabotage in connectionwith complicated installations.(v)Reiohsverteidigungskcmnissar (Reich Defense Commissioner)Each G-aii in Germany is a Civil Defense District headed by aGauleiter. The office originated when in Sept. 1939, GORING appointed1b Civil Defense Comnissioners for the then existing Wehrkreise on thereconmendation of PRICK and HESS (formerly Reichs Minister of theInterior and Party Chancery Leader respectively). At the present timeeach Gauleiter (of whom there are 42 at present; is Defence Commissionerfor the Party Gau in his capacity as executive agent of the Ministerialratfur die Reichsverteidigung (Ministerial Council for Defence of theReich, or General Staff for Civil Defence and War Economy). TheCouncil* s president is G&RING- and its members include KniMr.TCR, FUNK,SPEBR, KEIIEL, BOHMAHN and LAMMERS. The essential tasks of the Gauleiterare the mobilisation of housing and of labour. Their authority in thecase of housing problems is derived from their office of Gauwohnungskommissar(Commissioner for Housing in the Party Gau); the exercise oftheir manpower authority is facilitated by the fact that for purposes ofdefence they have at their disposal SAUCKEL's manpower controlorganization as represented in each Gau by the Reichstreuhftnder ftir dieArbeit (Reich Trustee for Manpower). Specifically they have the authorityto close shops and enterprises in the course of total mobilisation, toissue orders, to make available vacant accommodation, to improve onexisting accommodations, to allocate accommodations to certain groups ofthe population, and so forth. They are especially active in air raidtarget areas, where they look after the billeting of bombed-out people,repair of damage, reconstruction and provision of materials and specialrations for the population.When, to the above description of the functions of the DefenceConmissioner, is added the fact that in general their task is to unifyand co-ordinate civil defence and all administrative branches connectedwith civil defence, except the railway, postal aid finance systems, itwill be obvious that the Defence Conmissioner must be in close liaisonwith the OT for the efficient execution of his tasks.As a matter of fact, OT control staffs on Einsatz level, have as oneof their main functions the task of correlating civilian demands on theOT, as expressed through the Reich Defence Conmissioners, with militarydemands as expressed through the Rdstungs-kommissionen and Rtlstungsunterkommissionen(Anaament Coranissions and Sub-Commissions). This subjecthas been discussed in detail, from the point of view of OT operationalmethods, in IIAb35; from the point of view of OT's status within thecomprehensive system for war production as set up by the Speer Ministryin IIGa86. One aspect of the Reich Defence Commissioner's sphere of *authority as against that of the OT, which has not yet been stressed isthe fact that the latter has priority over manpower, even in the face ofthe emergency powers with which the Defence Commissioners have beenvested. Thus there have been complaints by several Coniaissioners to the