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hour for Sunday work. Eastern workers received no extra pay for
Sunday work but merely the basic rate of pay.
For work on holidays,
such as Christmas, German workers were granted a 100 percent additional pay.
Eastern workers did not receive this 100 percent extra pay for work on certain
holidays but merely their basic pay rate.
Statements of account for
wages earned, given weekly to German workers, were not given to eastern
workers. RM 1.50 per day for food and billets was deducted from the
Russians’ wages.
2. Food. German workers, if they came
under the group of so-called long, or night shift workers received additional
food rations. Eastern workers, who worked the same long, or night shifts as the
German workers, received no additional food rations although their basic food
rations were already smaller. German workers doing heavy or very heavy work
were given extra food rations. If eastern workers, too, did work which came
into this category, special application had to be made in which it had to be
pointed out that the worker in question was a Soviet civilian worker.
Additional rations granted to these eastern workers were considerably smaller
than those of German workers.
The food rations for Russian workers were
so low that especially in 1941-1942 it was almost impossible to put these
people to work. Only after many groups of industry had protested, the food
rations were at last gradually increased at the beginning of 1943.
3.
Legal position regarding employment. German regulations with regard to
legal protection and rights did not affect the eastern workers and Russian
prisoners of war, unless this was specially specified. Neither were they
granted any allowances such as separation, and billeting allowances, an
allowance for children, or holiday and home leave allowances.
From the
time of the arrival of the Russians toward the end of 1941 until about 1943
they were forbidden to write or receive letters. Later this regulation was
rescinded.
During the same period they had to be kept behind barbed
wire. From the end of 1941 until at least the middle of 1942 they were not
allowed to go out at all. From then on they could move about in the streets up
to a certain evening hour. As from about 1943, after a visit of Sauckel, the
barbed wire was removed from the camps.
I have carefully read each of
the 4 pages of this affidavit, have made the necessary corrections in my own
handwriting, and countersigned them with my initials, and I declare herewith on
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