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(1) Poliere (foremen over labour gangs of varying size);(2) Schutzkommando (Security Guards); (3) transport andservices personnel; (4) Lagerftthrer (camp supervisors);'5) administrative personnel of a clerical nature;6) administrative personnel of a technical nature;) chief 8 of operational sectors.Firmen Angehftrige (firm personnel);(8) olerical staffs; (9) technical staffs; (10) constructionsupervisors; (11) construction site supervisors (OT-Firmexecutives).The administrative staff of an OBL at present, possibly numbersless than 2fo of the total OBL manpower; thus an OBL HQ controlling15 9 000 men consists of approximately 300 men and women.By D-Day the shortage of 0T personnel had become such that,with the exception of (1) and (7) (see above), foreign personnel,notably Dutch, Flemish, Danish and Frenchmen, were entrusted withthe other assignments, as enumerated above, in the followingproportions respectively: (2) almost exclusively; (3) to a verylarge extent; (4) to a great extent as assistant or deputy incharge; (5) mostly confined to female clerks; (6) very smallproportions; (8) mostly confined to female clerks; (9) in a somewhatlarger proportion than (6); (10) in a very snail proportion,if any. The signals coonunication systems are run by detachmentsof exclusively German 0T Nachrichtenna'dels (Comnunication girls).Higher administrative eohelons naturally were exclusively Germanas was 0T liaison personnel - always conceding the presence ofthe foreign element in clerical staffs. Indications are that thegreat majority of Hilfspoliere (male collaborationist labour gangleaders) were evaouated into Germany.A class of 0T personnel, confined perhaps to the West, Norwayand Denmark is "local" 0T labour This category, living near theconstruction site, is allowed to sleep and eat at home. Finally,too, there is the occasional day labour composed of female cleaningand kitchen help in labour camps* This category worked for the 0Ton a short term basis but was not contracted to the organisation.Individual functions of the more important types have beendiscussed in detail, as follows: types (including Hilfspoliere)1,4,6,9,10,11 above in II3BbU7-ll8; types 2 and 3 in IIP* types5 aijd 7 in IIIBc; type 8 in IIDa.U4. Other special units in the 0T.Besides the Baustab SPEER which was mentioned above inpara.110, there are the following other units in the 0T to whichspecial functions are assigned:1) Bergnannkompanie (Miner Company). See IA12.2) Bergungsregiment SPEER (Rescue and Salvage Regiment SHEER).See IA12.3) Polizei Regt. TOOT SS (SS Police Regiment TODT.) SeeIIFe83.4) NSKK Transport Brigade TQDT (Transport Korps SPEER). SeeIIFb 70 & 72.5) Legion SPEER. See IIFb71.6) Transport Flotte SPEER. See IIFb73.-120­