THE STENOGRAPHIC MINUTES OF THE JAEGERSTAB
CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, 5 MAY 1944, 10 O’CLOCK
IN THE REICH AIR MINISTRY
Schmelter: I was supposed to report on the employment of labor in the penal institutions.[[130]] The Minister of Justice has not yet forwarded the complete list of workers available in the penal institutions. I have made another inquiry. Dr. Schmelter (?) [sic] has appointed Attorney Karl as special official in charge. He is the liaison to the Reich Ministry of Justice. * * *
Heyne: Such conversations have taken place. They do not get us anywhere. The thing we need is a listing of all localities showing how large a number of prisoners are yet available there. Then we must see whether they are required there. Herr Schmelter planned to concentrate the skilled workers in those spots. There are only 2-3 percent skilled workers in all among all prisoners. That is too little.
Milch: I suggest you are going to submit to me today a letter to Thierack, to wit: Taking into consideration the extraordinary urgency of the work in connection with the Jaegerstab we need this assistance. We have failed for a long time unfortunately to obtain the compilation from the authorities concerned. We need such and such data. I ask him to concern himself personally with the matter and to let us have the material in the very near future.
PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NOKW-336[[131]]
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