A document found in the OKH files furnishes further evidence of the seizure of workers in Holland. This document contains the partial text of a lecture delivered by a Lieutenant Haupt of the German Wehrmacht concerning the situation of the war economy in the Netherlands:
“There had been some difficulties with the Arbeitseinsatz, i.e., during the man-catching action (Menchenfang Aktion) which became very noticeable because it was unorganized and unprepared. People were arrested in the streets and taken out of their homes. It has been impossible to carry out a unified release procedure in advance, because for security reasons, the time for the action had not been previously announced. Certificates of release, furthermore, were to some extent not recognized by the officials who carried out the action. Not only workers who had become available through the stoppage of industry but also those who were employed in our installations producing things for our immediate need. They were apprehended or did not dare to go into the streets. In any case it proved to be a great loss to us. * * *” (3003-PS)
4. RESULTS OF THE SLAVE LABOR PROGRAM
The hordes of displaced persons in Germany today reflect the extent to which the Nazi conspirators’ labor program succeeded. The best available Allied and German data reveal that as of January 1945 approximately 4,795,000 foreign civilian workers had been put to work for the German war effort in the old Reich, among them slave laborers of more than 14 different nationalities. An affidavit executed by Edward L. Deuss, an economic analyst, contains the following statistical summation:
“APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS PUT TO WORK FOR THE GERMAN WAR EFFORT IN THE OLD REICH”
[Status January 1945]
| Nationality | Workers | P/W’s | Politicals | Total |
| Russians | 1,900,000 | 600,000 | 11,000 | 2,500,000 |
| 764,000 | 750,000 | 1,525,000 | ||
| Poles | 851,000 | 60,000 | 911,000 | |
| Italians | 227,000 | 400,000 | 627,000 | |
| Dutch | 274,000 | 2,300 | 277,000 | |
| Belgians | 183,000 | 63,000 | 8,900 | 254,000 |
| Yugoslavs | 230,000 | 230,000 | ||
| Czechoslovaks | 140,000 | 140,000 | ||
| Balts | 130,000 | 130,000 | ||
| Greeks | 15,000 | 15,000 | ||
| Luxembourgers | 14,000 | 1,000 | 15,000 | |
| Hungarians | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||
| Rumanians | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||
| Bulgarians | 2,000 | 2,000 | ||
| Others | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||
| ———— | ———— | ———— | ———— | |
| Totals | 4,795,000 | 1,873,000 | 23,200 | 6,691,000 |
“Note: Of the estimated 6,691,000 approximately 2,000,000 civilian foreigners and 245,000 prisoners of war were employed directly in the manufacture of armaments and munitions (end products or components) on the 31 December 1944, according to Speer Ministry tabulations. The highest number of prisoners of war so employed was 400,000 in June 1944, the decrease to December 1944 being accounted for in part by a change in status from prisoners to civilian workers. A figure of 2,070,000 Russians uncovered in the American, British and French zones, given in ‘Displaced Persons Report No. 43,’ of the Combined Displaced Persons’ Executive, c/o G-5 Division, USFET, 30 September 1945, was increased by 430,000 to allow for Russians estimated to have been found on German territory conquered by the Red Army.”
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“The designation ‘Politicals’ at the head of the third column in the table should be taken to mean persons who upon being uncovered in Germany by the Allied forces asserted that they were arrested in their native countries for subversive activities against the Nazis, and were transported to Germany for incarceration. The figures do not include racial or religious deportees, nor persons imprisoned for crimes allegedly committed in Germany * * *.” (2520-PS)