Thus the Arbeitseinsatz has done everything to help make possible the completion of the Atlantic Wall.
to a Heil Hitler!
Your obedient and faithful
Fritz Sauckel
to b Your continually obliged
Fritz Saukel
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 407-IX-PS
The Commissioner for the Four Year Plan
The Plenipotentiary for the Arbeitseinsatz
Berlin W8, 3 June 1943
1751/43 [pencilled] ab 6/4/43
To the Fuehrer of Greater Germany
The Fuehrer's Hq
My Fuehrer!
I beg to be permitted to report to you on the situation of the Arbeitseinsatz for the first 5 months of 1943.
For the first time the following number of new foreign laborers and Prisoners of War were employed in the German war industry:
| January 1943 | —120,085 |
| February 1943 | —138,354 |
| March 1943 | —257,382 |
| April 1943 | —160,535 |
| May 1943 | —170,155 |
| ———— | |
| Total | —846,511 |
I may remark that this number of 850,000 was reached only after greatest difficulties were overcome which had not existed during the previous year; all those who have worked for the Arbeitseinsatz, particularly in the occupied territories, did so with the greatest fanaticism and devotion.
Unfortunately quite a number of our officials and employees were victims of murders and attacks by partisans.
Besides those labor forces recruited for work within the Reich, several hundred thousand laborers were recruited in the occupied territories through the agencies for the Arbeitseinsatz as well as through the OT and the factories working in the East and the West for the German war industry. Furthermore the Wehrmacht received a large number of laborers as well as labor volunteers.