It will be experts who are called up. And it would be a good thing if one linked up with it the conscription of tool makers within the firms so that one would have a body of tool makers in the armament industry. These people would get leave from this group and would function as armed forces employees. If we make them armed forces employees we have the advantage of being independent of Sauckel’s offices.
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Field Marshal Milch: How long do the Italian PW’s actually work here?
Schmelter: As long as the factory works. There is a regulation that PW’s must work so long.
Field Marshal Milch: Could you not look into this? You can see people on the streets about 4 or 5 o’clock and nobody after that.
(Schmelter: I can look into it!)
I do not believe that any Italian prisoner of war works 72 hours.