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9» Regelbauten Standardised Construction*Transport is supplied to the firms by NSKK - OT units whichpool their own vehicles and trucks with those of the OT firmsand locally requisitioned vehicles* Transport is requisitionedfrom the NSKK by the firms. Owing to the shortage of fuel andthe resultant competition for transportation, new regulations wereissued in February 1944» whereby vehicles belonging to firms werereturned to them and permission for hiring additional vehicles fromlocal sources was granted. For further details on transport,see IIF b.58. Foreign Firms in Occupied Europe, Summer 1944(i)FRANCEUntil February 1944 Frenoh firms could not sign a contractdirectly with the OT but were compelled to sub-contract themselvesto a German OT Firm. Such contracts were to be approved by theVertragsabteilung (Contracts Sub-Section) in the EGW. In February1944» however, the French building industry established direct liaisonin the EGPV in order to represent the interests of French firms ^rkingfor the OT. The office was called Service de Liaison et de Defensedes Entrepreneurs Francais anpre3 de l'OT. In i\pril 1944 theComite d^Organisation au Batlment et Tnavaux Publics, (COBTP)was established. Its function was to recruit reliable Frenchfirms for the OT and establish standard price quotations inconnection with OT contracts. Members of the latter could signcontracts directly with the OT through the offices of the Servicede Liaison which attempted to co-ordinate the resources of the French,with those of the German construction industry, as well as toarbitrate differences between French and German firms. It proceededthrough the intermediary of the German Wirtschaftsgruppe Bauindustrie(Economic Group : Construction Industry) which maintained liaison in theEGW (see below para 59 and Chart 8). French firms were financed,if necessary, by the German firm, especially if they brought largegangs of workers, adequate staffs of technicians and serviceableequipment.(ii)BEI&IPM AND HOLLANDAside from possible construction of V-sites, there was relativelylittle activity in Belgium and Holland after the Channel Coastdefences had been completed and labour transferred to the Atlantic Wallin France, Consequently most of the Belgian and Dutch OT firmswere active in France.(iii )NORWAYAMD DENMARKConditions asoutlined in the case of France hold substantiallytrue for EG Wiking (Norway and Denmark). A small number of GermanOT firms, however, dominate the field in this sector.(IT)ITALYThe number of Italian OT-firms in 1943-44 was extremely small,possibly less than two dozen. An Italian firm always could sign acontract with the OT without the necessity of sub-contracting itselfto a German OT-firm. There were even fewer German OT-firms in Italythan Italian. Finns obtain their manpower mainly through theAzione Graziani Labour Agency. Relationship between German and-59 ­