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Italy and Germany were in close co-operation over a period of years.There were several reasons for this. One was the basic jealousy ofan independent government of its prerogatives over its own nationals andin controlling strategic defense work within its own domain. Anotherreason was the fact that recruitment for war production work in Germanywas considered more imperative than recruitment for the OT.(One qualification which should be made to the above statement is thefact that it appears that at the present time there are a number ofItalians in Germany working for the OT In industrial .plants. Theirnumber may aaount to 100,000), When the Badoglio government withdrewfrom the Axis and declared war on Germany, non-Fascist Italians wereimpressed locally by tha Army for erecting defense work as prisoners orhostages of war rather than as compulsory 0T labour. Fascist Italiansin German controlled Italy on the other hand were in a position tovolunteer for the 0T as one way of complying with the Fascio government f »Labour Service Regulations. This they did all the more readilyin-as-much as 0T pay scales were by far higher than anything offered "byItalian concerns and individual employers. Next to the concentrationsin Italy, notably in the Alps, Italian personnel was most numerousalong the French Mediterranean coast and in the CHERBOURG and CALAISarea. Except for personnel of the Italian divisions at one timestationed in the French Riveria, and enrolled in the 0T, the preponderantage groups of Italians in the 0T are below 21 and over 40. It ispossible that some volunteer Italians in the 0T In France are stilli n such beleaguered garrisons as IA ROCHELLE and LORIENT: more probablyhowever, the larger number has been evacuated into Germany.(g)Spaniards in the 0T178 "ins-urgentsPand "Repxtblicans ".The Spaniards in 0T were in a somewhat similar political position tothe Italians. TJhere were two basic Spanish groups: RepublicanSpaniards ranging in political conviction from mild Republicanism boAnarchism and grouped by the Germans under the headings of Rotspanier(Red Spaniards)| pro-Franco Spaniards who joined the 0T for personaland economic reasons. T*he first group consisted of three sub-groups;Republican Civil War soldiers interned in France and fallen in theGerman hands; those who had escaped from the internment camps and hadtaken up residence in France; and finally those who had accepteddeportation from Spanish Jails to feed Germany's industrial manpowerneeds, as the lesser of two evils. As far as the political status ofSpaniards residing in France was concerned, subjects of neutral nationsobviously were not liable for compulsory labour, A Spanish resident inFrance might, however, be forcibly inducted throuî lack of proper paperswhich he had been unable to obtain from the Spanish consulates in France.Convoys of Spanish workers arrived at 0T centres continuously during 1943and the first half of 1944. Subsequently a large number of themdeserted.When the French authorities in the spring of 1944 combed SouthernFrance for manpower for German essential industries., including the 0T,tbsy had speeific orders to earmark for transport to Germany Spaniardswho had no adequate papers in their possession. OT's needs were,however, not ignored; part of the shortage of tunnelling specialistsincluding "sand-hogs" was met by allotting Art urianBand other Spanishminers to the organization. Some of these Zwangsarbeiter are stil lon Alderney Isle at present. Similarly "Rotspanier* (loyalistSpaniards) were allotted to the 0T-H3CK as motor vehicle drivers.Inasmuch as • regulations did not permit the employment of arenasarbeiterin tte* NSKK and Rotspanier were of Zwangsarbeiter status, the term ofRotspanier for this type of personnel was replaced by Transportspanier.Next to the Belgians, Dutch, and Danes, the Spanish personnel hadprobably the highest proportion of military age groups. It is apractical. ' certainty that the Germans did not succeed in evacuatingmore than a minor fraction of Spaniards out of France after D-day.-178
Baltic Manpower179* Proportion and StatusEsthonians, Lituanians, Latvians, as a racial group, were consideredsuperior to Rumanians, Croats, etc., even though their political standingwas lower. They do not form a considerable element in the OT. and arecomposed of volunteers and the residue of those who were left at Germandisposal after the selection of men for SS Baltic Legions and for warproduction in Germany*(i)Russian Volunteers180. "yiassov* Russian UnitsThe following is a quotation from secondary sources 4 datedApril 19*f5:"The German authorities have announced that from this week allRussians in German/will receive most-favoured-nation treatment,with food and wages on a scale that has hitherto applied only tothe "best paid foreign workers*They have stated also that they will no longer deduct 15 percentof all wages, as they have done up to the present, and Himmlerhas proclaimed that anybody who allows any injustice to Russianworkers employed in Germany will be severely punished. Theseorders complete the promotion by stages of Russian workers sincelast year from the lowest to the highest grade.What is even more significant, an agreement between the renegadeRussian general Vlassov and the chief of the 3.S. seems to show thatthe Germans have decided to abandon the idea of sending largeunits of armed Russians to the front* According to this agreementRussians organized as military units and commanded by renegadeRussian officers will henceforth be placed under the Todtorganization for non-combatant' tasks instead of directly "fightingBolshevism and liberating the homeland 1 *, as formerly advertised*These Russians of Vlassov s "army" will receive from this weekeven better financial treatment than the labourers of the otherwisemost favoured nations. An agreement says explicitly - apparentlyto avoid any disappointment among the men at Veing switched overfrom sword to shovel - that "besides military pay soldiers ofthis auxiliary army will receive also parent for their labouraccording to the Todt organization s rates* Food will also beplentiful and its quality good* Their spiritual requirementwill be satisfied by the chief of the propaganda department of theCommittee for Liberating the Peoples of Russia". Vlassov hasappointed a special general staff for the Todt service with anengineer named Popov as its chief"•(k)Balkan Manpower161» CollaborationistHungarians, Bulgarians, Rumanians, Croats and Slovaks are not foundin large numbers in the OT inasmuch as fhey remain under immediate controlof their government even thougi the policy pursued was dictated fromBERLIN. Those who were in a positioirito volunteer for the OT were at thesame time able to choose the location of their employment. The West-179
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IR5/f!lR-0T/5/4SHRnDBOOK OF THEDRcn
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GE R MAN YOT EINSATZGRUPPEN, AUTUMN
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TABLE OP CONTENTS(See also LIST OP
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4a. OrganizSferiy %f Sfciw t>T& ^ ^
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Page35. "Current Organization" Eins
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155» Miscellaneous Deductions and
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To-day PT is indispensable in any p
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UNCLASS13* The two "basic types 6_
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of control over its plans, which we
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OT units was that of Bautrupps (Con
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__ n be committed to work by order
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11. OT Construction Activities 1942
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In case of Allied landings. In the
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Factors militating against complete
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1* Rationalization^ on a nation wid
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The project itself cannot be accept
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areas within the Reich; (3) Einsatz
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has the final responsibility for me
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Matters of policy, as decided upon
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with the Wehrmacht and with civil a
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which do the actual work. This is o
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adjacent construction sites are gro
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Amt Bau-OTZ.The second ia the auton
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are to be employed in tha execution
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"Current Organization" Bauleitung (
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Former Hauptabteilungen in OTZ have
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(SS Liaison Officer) are the follow
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y the Array for the construction of
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fortresses stretch over its entire
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(Eastern Wall) in April 1943* At on
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obviously would also have the same
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Consequently ten lype A emplacement
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at the expense of the "private comm
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eside those of feeding and billetin
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57* Construction Programme, Materia
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Italian firms arid the workers is c
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"The large scale construction work
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Diplom - Ingenieur "* Paul ANDORY,
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Para. 7 ~ CompensationCompensation
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Para* 16 - Text of the ContractThe
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m tag » * u »"5. For ascertaining
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- Delivery of Building MaterialThe
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prior consent of the HU. Any assign
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ecause of Allied propaganda and the
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all replacement parts of machine we
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served only as a general directive.
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The transport organizations forking
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outside the "boundaries of the Reic
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d) Health and Medical Services77. M
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tfhTheading "identifying scars or w
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example, units of the Feldgendanaer
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set up within the region of each Ar
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Scâl Festungspionier stab, (Portre
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Refer at (Sub Unit) BII1 : Hochbau,
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2. Although the agencies are subord
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Emergency Measures1. In case of imm
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The interests of the OT firms as an
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of the OBL cuts across two or more
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The following captured document, he
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sche Nothilfe - Technical Tanarfien
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Chef de¥iflitfSItverwaltung, Haupt
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corresponding in area to the DHL's.
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ij Feldpoliêi (commonly abbreviate
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erNSKK Verbindungsf&hrer des Transp
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, _ .-^^-^^-^sson of aDienstbuch (P
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ar T—all phases of OT operation.
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B. Classicioation of Personnela) Ge
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Control during working hours - unde
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ii . Betriebsftihrer (Finn Manager)
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vii,obhoer*ed. In the performance o
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