| First | Second-Fourth | |||||
| Quarter-44 | Quarter-44 | Total | ||||
| in 1000’s | ||||||
| Agriculture | 70 | (1) | 70 | (2) | 140 | |
| Forestry and Timber Industry | 40 | (3) | . . | (4) | 40 | |
| Armament and War Production | 544 | (5) | 3,000 | (6) | 3,544 | |
| Air Raid Damages | 100 | 50 | 150 | (7) | ||
| Communications | 85 | (8) | 265 | 350 | ||
| Distribution | . . | . . | . . | |||
| Public Administration | 62 | (9) | . . | 62 | ||
| Wehrmacht Administration | 130 | . . | 130 | |||
| ——— | ——— | ——— | ||||
| 1,031 | 3,385 | 4,416 | ||||
(1) Not including the 200,000 of whom 100,000 each will flow back from industry and forestry.
(2) Not including the demand for seasonal workers amounting usually to 62,000.
(3) 25,000 for forestry and 15,000, including 8,000 women for the timber industry, as against a peacetime requirement of 150,000 male and 40,000 female seasonal workers, although now considerably increased production (1943:70 million cubic meters; 1944:80 million cubic meters) and particularly heavy combing-out through draft.
(4) Starting autumn 1944, the usual necessary transfer from agriculture.
(5) Found to be a priority requirement for February with the Plenipotentiary for Labor Allocation.
(6) Starting March, 200,000 monthly as compensation for fluctuations—2 million for period March to December 1944. Plus compensation for return to agriculture 100,000 (cp. note 1) including 30,000 retrained workers who perhaps will have to be covered by an over-all exchange system and about 900,000 as replacement for draftees, as reserves for increased programs, etc., making about 3 million men all told for the period from March to December 1944.
(7) 150,000 is the minimum requirement in addition to the hitherto assigned 70,000 OT, 100,000 GB construction and 118,000 workmen to the local and district assignments and 42,000 workers centrally assigned. The mobile formations are to be increased and sometimes to be reinforced by local help, particularly by people unemployed through bombings.
(8) Including 75,000 for the Reichsbahn, 1,000 for inland navigation, 7,000 for motor traffic, 2,000 for minor railways.
(9) Including 27,000 for the Reichspost and 35,000 for the Red Cross.