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effect that the OT has conscripted manpower in their districts, withdetrimental results to the output of factories and agriculture*While complaints of this sort may have had some effect on the OT 1 smanpower authority in rear areas {see IB20), there is little likelihoodthat OT front zones (i.e . Front OT) have been in any way affected.(vi) VolksstuimThere is no indication of foimal liaison between the Volksstuim andthe OT. On the other hand there is no reason for doubting thatco-operation, in both rear and forward areas, has on occasion takenplace between the two organizations* Normally such co-operation inrear areas, would be regulated on the part of the Volkssturm (in thiscase, the Stand-Bat a illone), by axmy authorities of the Replacement andTraining Army, viz* the various Wehrkreis Commanders, or, as theirsecond in command, the Hfthere SS urtf. Poliaei Ftthrer (HSSPf 2 Superior SSand Police Commanders). The nature of such co-operation would be inthe nature of military and political security. As such, the subjecthas been dealt with in IIFe82« Co-operation in forward areas would, onthe part of the Volkesturm (in this case, the Einsatz-Bataillone) beregilated by army operational authorities. The Volksstuim 1 s part insuch co-operation would consist of tasks, similar to those formerlyassigned, on occasion, to the RAD : doing the spade work on OT jobs,under the direction of the OT.97« Collaborat ionist Agencies.Operational liaison between the OT and collaborationist agencies islisted by country in IIGe 106 below.e )tiiat of Liaison Agencies*Hotel These agencies are arranged in the same order as in the text#(lIGa-d)« in Asterisk («) placed against an individual entry means that'the particular entry is discussed in the text*98 # ¥ehrmacht-Azmy-OT Agencies (Textt IIGaB6-88)*K Vertreter des Leiters der OTZ beim Generalstab des Heeres(Chief of 0T2 f s Representative to the Anny General Staff).at OT Verbindungsf&hrer beim Oberbef ehlshaber Sttd-Ost*(OT Liaison Officer to Commander-in-chief South-East (Balkans))sBeauftragter der OT beim General der Pioniere and Pestungen (OKH(OT Deputy to the General of Engineers and Fortifications (OKH)Tertreter der OT beim OKST/Chef des Transportwesens(OT Representative at OHf/Chief of Transport)OT Beauftragter des General Ingenieurs in SOFIA (Dipl. Ing* VOGL)(OT Deputy to General, Chief of Engineers (HQ, C in C South-East)SOFIA)Terbindungsftthrer Heeresgebiet A (SIMFEROPOL and STALDO)(OT Liaison Officer A (between Army Group A and EG Russland sad)OT Terbindungsfuhrer beim Oberbef ehlshaber Sudwest (Italy)(OT Liaison officer to C-in-C Southwest (Italy))xFestungspionierstab(Fortress Engineer Staff)