Rec’d. 14 July 1943; no encl.
III E 733/43 Secret
To Ministerialdirektor Riecke
in Berlin
| Subject: | Report on experiences in political and economic problems in the East, particularly the Commissariat General White Ruthenia. |
* * * The task of the military agencies and, subsequently, of the German administration, is: “Exploitation of the region for the German war economy,” and the motto: “Everything you do for Germany is right, everything else is wrong!”
* * * The recruitment of labor for the Reich, however necessary, had disastrous effects. The recruitment measures in the last months and weeks were absolute manhunts, which have an irreparable political and economic effect * * * From * * * White Ruthenia, approximately 50,000 people have been obtained for the Reich so far. Another 130,000 are to be obtained. Considering the total population of 2.4 million, these figures are impossible * * *.