“5. An emphatic insistence on this urgency before the French Government, in particular before Marshal Pétain, who still represents the main obstacle to the further recruiting of French women for compulsory labor.
“6. A pronounced increase in the program which I have already introduced in France, for retraining workers to trades essential to war production.”
I skip the next and read the last paragraph:
“I therefore beg you, my Führer, to approve my suggestion of making available 1 million French men and women for German war production in France proper in the second half of 1943 and, in addition, of transferring 500,000 French men and women to the Reich before the end of the current year.
“Yours faithfully and obediently,”—Signed—“Fritz Sauckel.”
The document to which I would now like to call the Tribunal’s attention proves that the Führer gave his approval to Sauckel’s program. A note drawn up on 28 July 1943 by Dr. Stothfang, under the letterhead of the Plenipotentiary General for Allocation of Labor (Arbeitseinsatz), gives a report on a discussion between Sauckel and the Führer. It is Document 556(41)-PS, which I submit to the Tribunal as Exhibit Number RF-66. I shall limit myself to reading the last paragraph:
“d) The transfer envisaged for the end of the year of 1 million French workers to the war industries in France, and the intended transportation of 500,000 other French workers to the interior of the Reich has been approved by the Führer.”