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Therefore, I ask you immediately to take any measures in your district which will promote the employment of workers in the German Reich on a voluntary basis. I herewith request you to prepare for publication regulations applying to forced mobilization of laborers from your territory for Germany, so that they may be decreed at once, in case recruiting on a voluntary basis will not have the desired result, that is relief of the man-power shortage in the Reich. I request you to inform me of the measures taken by you.
Copy for cognizance. Signed: Dr. Mansfeld
Attested by: [signature illegible]
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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1188-PS
20 May 1941
Decree of the Fuehrer
Concerning the Economy in the Newly Occupied
Eastern Territories
(1) In the newly occupied eastern territories Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering as the Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan shall issue all orders concerning matters within his jurisdiction which are essential to the highest utilization of existing stocks, to the highest increase of the industrial capacity, and to the further building up of all economic resources that can be utilized for the German war economy.
(2) In order to accomplish his task, he may also give orders to Wehrmacht agencies.
(3) This decree becomes effective to-day. It may only be published after special authorization.
Fuehrer's Headquarters
The Fuehrer,
The Chief of the German High Command
The Reichsminister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery