English Translation

SV Copy of Va 5464/2587 The President Hannover S, December 18, 1939. sap Alte Döhrener Str.15 Landesarbeitsamts Niedersachsen Gesch.Z.Nr. 5464 M/Bim.- To the Lord Reichsarbeitsminister, Berlin SW 11, Saarlandstr.96. Betr.: Emigration of workers from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Process: Decree of 21.0 October 1939 - Va 5465/2190 -. More precise findings about the arrivals and departures of workers at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring and the numerous entrepreneurs involved in the construction work can hardly be met, since the Reichsenwerke did not have sufficient control over this so far. The Braunschweig and Goslar employment offices have probably recorded and statistically recorded the forces which came to employment with their participation. However, it can be assumed that some of the workers recruited abroad by the Reichswerke themselves, especially in the first period, were not even reported to the employment offices and were not known to them even later, because they often turned away before work book registration. The comparison of the recorded access in the period from 1 January to 30 November 1939 - approx. 37 000 - and the inventory on 1 January 1939 and on 30 November 1939, in which, however, the percentage of the original workers of the individual construction companies was not determined, gives in 1939 a departure of approx. 21700. 8ooo forces which, in the event of the outbreak of war, are to be carried out by confiscation to military service, repatriation to their homeland, etc. In the case of German workers who were not obliged or recommitted because of the expiry of the period of obligation, and the Italian workers who returned to Italy after the end of the agreed period of employment, the plutuation of the Reichswerke remains extremely high. In these unregulated departures, the members of the protectorate are the most involved, and the contract breaks were also the most frequent among them. The reasons for this strong fluctuation are probably to be sought for the overriding part in the accumulation of foreign workers in the building area of the Reichswerke, who, perhaps absent from the Italians, do not know a degree of loyalty and do not feel bound by any labour regulations in force in Germany. Attempts made by the Braunschweig and Goslar employment offices in the Protectorate area to achieve the carriage of workers who have become disabled by contract were almost always unsuccessful and thus did not help to suppress emigration. Further causes, however, are no doubt also an insufficient support for all good will, insufficient monitoring of the too large workers' camps, lack of control of the individual construction companies by the administration of the Reichswerke and more. In recent times, according to the Reichswerke, the lack of food allocation in the opinion of many workers is often also a reason for emigration.