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ecause of Allied propaganda and the growingself-assurance of native elements, hitherto only apathetic cat best luke-warm to the Allied cause. However, the severepolicies from a chronological and a geographical standpointwhich the OT adopted in regard to political discrimination,were, like the various types of operational organisation,dictated by military necessity and adapted to the immediatesituation. To a victorious Germany, a post-war OT wouldhave been as important as it was essential during the war.The OT had been counted on to kill two birds with one stone:to reconstruct Europe according to Nazi strategic schemes ofeconomic exploitation, and to unite politically, the workingmasses of Europe by channelling their activities along Nazilines of labour organisations. From a long-range point ofview, therefore, neither the enforced labour system withoutperceptible regard for humane treatment, as it was practisedgenerally in the East and in the Balkans, nor the other extrof a conciliatory policy born out of necessity, as it waspractised in Rranoe, can be taken as exemplifying OT stabiliadministrative policy in regard to foreign workers. It wasnot until the end of 1 943 and the beginning of 1 944 that OTbegan to issue regulations with any indication that they werpart of a definite political policy in regard to a 'UnitedEurope 1 • These regulations may be constructed as in thefollowing paragraph^68. OT personnel administration defined in terms of long-ra]policy.Under stable conditions there was no need envisaged forself-contained mobile operational units. The OT Firms woul