STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 74, sig. 109-1/80

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30w jobs in December 1943 with about 24 000 forest workers, of which only about 15 o0 could be occupied by mediation. By obligation of service, especially from circles of agriculture grains a certain compensation is created (maximum number of service-committed in Deżember 1943 with approx. 8 200 man). According to the information provided by the health insurance institutions, 33 000 forest workers were employed on average in the months of October and November 1943, and 43 000 forestworkers were employed in the forestry of the Protectorate in the month of December 1943, while the highest level was reached with an average of 5o ooo forest workers only in the period of January to May 1944. The task for the next impact must be to bring more workers into the forest at an early stage, a measure which will be facilitated by this, than genuine or lesser-sized farmers who can come to Prague for work in the forest and who can be obliged to serve have now been identified during the current marketing year. In connection with the combing out of private forest farms in order to eliminate their personal overburdening, in the autumn of the year about 12o protectorate members with forest-based training for the forestry of the rest of the Reichsgebiet have been obliged to pay. 74 assessments of the benefits of these protection members are still available today. Of these workers, at present 61 are employed to provide assistance in the investigations to verify the timber yield in the floor room, 3 to support the Porstamt and 10 to assist the forestry service. According to their achievements, 10 are assessed with "very good", 41 with "good", 15 with "average" and 8 with "sufficient". The independent cooperation with German forest workers is readily affirmed in 33 cases, in 41 cases it is rejected or a judgment cannot be given on the basis of the nature of the present operation. For 43 workers, the use of the daub is considered to be acceptable in the Reicly recommendation, for 31 denies or only in the Altreich and not in the newly annexed Danube and Alpengauen. 05970 /