STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 457, sig. 109-4/202

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2 Sender London, 22.45 Uhr The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" brings an article dealing with the forced convocation of workers from the occupied countries planned by the German side. Germany currently owns 2.loo.ooo foreign workers. However, this does not correspond to today's German requirements by far. And so it is planned to replace the so far at least officially "voluntary" work activity with a kind of forced convocation. In this sense, the new economic minster of the Protectorate government, Dr. Bertsch, also expresses himself, explaining that the Czechs, since they were a people spared from wars, would be best suited to the position of such forced labour forces. The Reichsbeauftragter für Arbeitslehrung, Mannsfeld, is also currently in charge of bringing hundreds of thousands of workers from the occupied territories to compulsory service.