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| the large number of prisoners of war from the fighting in the west
employment in fields other than agriculture is in question to a much higher
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| II. Work Projects |
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The regional labor office and labor offices shall procure prisoners
of war primarily for the following operations:
1. Agriculture.
2. Forestry and timber work.
3. Activities connected with land
improvement.
4. Operations in the total field of mining, including the
plants falling within the same category.
5. Railroad operations, both
work on the tracks (current maintenance and major operations by outside
contractors) as well as other work (freight dispatching, reloading sheds,
workshops, etc.) and buildings of the Reichsbahn essential for the war effort.
6. Construction work and operations in buna and hydrogenation plants,
cellulose and staple fibre plants, and other plants essential for the war
effort.
7. Construction, essential for the war effort, of roads,
canals, dams, and residential buildings.
8. Work in brickyards,
quarries, and other plants of the group rocks and sands, as far as they are of
importance in the war effort.
9. Building under the emergency food
program (building of new stables), of dairies and refrigeration plants.
10. Work in the production of peat.
11. Transportation work of
any kind.
This list is not exhaustive. Prisoners of war can also be
employed in other working projects essential to the war effort. Prisoners of
war are only assigned to work on projects which are nonessential to the war
effort and of secondary importance, if other employment possibilities do not
exist any longer. This is only in question, when even the last possibility of
releasing German workers from their places of work by the employment of
prisoners of war and utilizing them in more urgent work or work demanding
higher qualifications, has been exhausted. The local labor offices, if
necessary the regional labor offices or the Reich Ministry of Labor decide the
question of the urgency of the employment of prisoners of war and on the
priority order which shall be applied to the demands for prisoners of war.
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| III. Basic Conditions for the Employment of Prisoners of
War |
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| 1. The work to be performed by the prisoners of war must not be
connected directly with operations of war. In particular the employment of
prisoners of war for the production and trans- […portation]
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