Schmelter: In one year the demand for female domestic servants in Germany has risen by 200,000, the demands of the armament industry during the same period by 600. I have arranged that transports that come from abroad are directed straight to the points of greatest need.
Milch: Every week 2,000 people come from the East.
(Schmelter: Most of them go into agriculture.)
The Jaegerstab has priority over agriculture. Can you not intercept them?
Schmelter: I have arranged that. The 2,000 are disposed of; some of them are already at work. But it does not always happen that the reports of the firms are 100 percent correct. We have often checked that up. It often happens that firms take the people and put them into another branch of production but still shout for people for the high priority processes.
(Nobel: That is not the case in my repair industry!)
Frydag: Yesterday, I was in Wiener-Neustadt. The works have a considerable assignment and a hefty increase. Merely in order to get out of the room unscathed I gave them 200 men from the airframes industry.
Schmelter: In Wiener Neustadt there was a demand for 1,000 or 1,500. A thousand were supposed to come from Air Fleet 2 in Italy. An engineer official, Weidinger, was going to produce them. On Sunday I received a phone call to the effect that the engineer official could not produce them.
Frydag: That is quite right. But you must put yourself in the firm’s place. The firm must have these people.
Schmelter: Then I must see to it that I take them from somewhere else.