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Schmelter: I have another small point to bring up. I said once before that we had fairly large numbers of English and American “Terror Flyers” in air force camps, who cannot be used. It is a matter, in all, of about 17,000 people, approximately half officers and NCO’s who do not need to work. That means that there are 6 to 9 thousand men in camps who just sit about doing nothing. The suggestion that they should be put to work has now been turned down on the grounds that it concerns especially intelligent people trained in collecting information and, apart from that, inclined to acts of sabotage.
Saur: Can we put them into the manufacture of component parts?
Lange: Perhaps we can employ them in underground factories.
Saur: We could employ them in the manufacture of component parts. Who is responsible for this matter?
Krause: The Commission for Prisoners of War; it comes under the Quartermaster General.
Saur: Will you undertake to put this matter in order? These people must be put at the disposal of the component parts industry. That would be an unbelievable help to us.
Schmelter: It must be laid down that these people all go into fighter production or into the component parts industry. Otherwise a part will be sent off elsewhere. The people in question are excellent people, good material.
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