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unreasonable. The same sources claim that 20,000,000 cubic metresof earth were excavated and moved in the period from May 1942 toMay 1943. It was also officially stated that it took 17,000 cubicmetres of cement per single gun of a super-heavy coastal battery.(There were at least two main types of such batteries: Battery TODTand Battery LINBEMANN, named after the well "known artillerygeneral, ) Pour batteries of the TOHT type, complete with livingquarters for the personnel, were said to have been installed withinten weeks, the work of 15,000 men with 400 trucks.iii) Channel Defences.The Channel Defences were started soon after the 1940campaign in the West, one noteworthy feature at the present timebeing the fortification of Alderney. The code name for theisland is "Adolf"• Work of a military nature had been carried outever since the seizure of the Island by the Germans. Much of thiswork is concentrated on the construction of tunnels and heavycoastal gun emplacements. Beside native conscripted labour,Russians, Jews and African Negroes have been employed there by thethousands, and to some extent, frenchmen and Spaniards in lessernumbers. The Island also contains a penal colony to whichrecalcitrant and habitually delinquent workers are consigned.These, along with the Russians, Jews, and Negroes, are generallyassigned the onerous tasks, while Frenchmen and Spaniards aregiven the task of supervising. An interesting sidelight is thedisclosure that about a half-dozen-German overseers were sentencedto various penalties by court-martial in March 1944, (CommandingGeneral of 319 Inf. Div. presiding). The court-martial was heldas a result of a written report that 600 Russians had died on theIsland within the space of nine months. Besides work on Alderney,submarine bunkers were constructed at ST. LAZAIRE, LORIENT, BRESTand MARSEIIIiES.iv) Norway and Denmark.The 0T undertook the construction of the Reichstrasse(National Trunk Road) connecting the southern part with thenorthern part of Norway from Nordland through KARASJOK and on tothe Finnish border at ROVANIEMI. Apart from German propagandastatements, it is not certain in what state of completion thisproject is at the present time. Construction of coastalfortifications has been going on for approximately two years.Fortifications have been erected on Jutland.v) Finland.Exploitation of nickel mines was undertaken by the 0T in theEETSAMD area.vij Russia.Aside from road and bridge building and reconstruction ofindustry in cities like STALINO, 0T activity in Russia was extendedover such a vast area that there does not appear to be any outstandingsingle piece of construction. Most of the reconstructionwork carried on by the 0T, aside from installations essential tomilitary operations, was in the southern part, starting at KIEVand extending through the Crimea and Kerch. Reconstruction ofindustry was centred in the Donets Basin. Kerch, NIKOPOL andKHERSON were the centres of bridge building activities. InNIKOLAEV the Crimea and KHERSON, the harbours were reconstructed.As to roads and fortifications, the claim was made that 700 milesof roads were improved and kept under repair during the periodfrom July to December 1943-* According to German documents,400,000. men were engaged in the building of the so-called M 0stmLl w- 47 ­