PRESIDED OVER BY THE STATE SECRETARY, FIELD
MARSHAL MILCH, ON TUESDAY, 5 MAY 1942,
10 A.M. IN THE REICH AIR MINISTRY
Alpers: The reason given is shortage of labor. And in fact there are 2,000 men lacking at Heinkel-Oranienburg.
Milch: As far as the French are concerned, 60,000 of the ones that we had been promised are still missing.
(Comment: 40,000 are missing.)
If we get those men I would assign 2,000 to Heinkel-Oranienburg.
Frydag: The French become worse and worse; I threw out 80 of them who will be sent to concentration camps in Russia. They refused to work. The French say at 4 o’clock: “I won’t work another hour,” and you cannot make them work another hour. This happened four weeks ago all of a sudden, when the first bombing attack on Paris took place, while before that the French were the best people.
Milch: We were told in Oranienburg that they were good as long as they didn’t get spoiled by our German people.