Directives for employment:
| Frenchmen: | Individual employment, transposition into the armament industry. [Rue-Wirtschaft.] |
| Belgians: | Individual employment, transposition into the armament industry. [Rue-Wirtschaft.] |
| Serbs: | Preferably agriculture. |
| Poles: | If feasible, no individual employment. |
Output of Russian armament industry surpasses the German one. Assembly line work, a great many mechanical devices with relatively few skilled workers.
Readiness of Russians to work in the operational area is strong. In the Ukraine and other areas discharged prisoners of war already work as free labor. In Krivoi Rog, large numbers of workers are available due to the destruction of the factories.
Employment of Russian PW’s
As a rule, employment in groups [geschlossener Arbeitseinsatz]; no individual employment, not even in agriculture. Guard personnel, not only soldiers but also foremen, at least during the working time proper. As a rule soldiers in the camp.
One has to distinguish between employment in:
| 1. | Operational area, |
| 2. | Reich Commissariats (occupied territories in the East), |
| 3. | General Government, and |
| 4. | Interior and Protectorate. |
To 1: In the operational area take preferably into consideration:
| a. | Railroads. |
| b. | Highway construction. |
| Very important that in the Ukraine some roads be built with increased speed, not by German skilled labor but by Russian PW’s. | |
| c. | Clearing work. |
| d. | Agriculture. |
| The Ukraine being conquered, we now finally have to secure the feeding of the German people. If necessary Frenchmen and Belgians are to be used for directing the work of the Russian farm workers in the eastern area. If farm machinery is lacking, employ masses of workers. Transfer of German farmers only where actual success can be expected. | |
| e. | Railroad-repair-factories, etc. |