Civil Man-Power in Germany
Some instructive facts and figures are given in the semi" official German publication, Die Deutsche Volkswirtschaft Cgi the subject of man-power available for industry in Germany It may be taken that production for war-purposes was In ,1_„ swing in the period immediately before the war, and it weula be interesting to know how it is maintained now when several millions of men are transferred from civil to military ovary' ticais.- When the war began the total number of gainnall, cupied employees in the Greater Reich, excluding Poland, returned at 24,46o,000, of whom about one-third were en. To arrive at the loss of civil man-power due to war nditioas it would be unfair to deduct from the total the ber of men fully employed in the fighting service (which scarcely be less than five or six millions), since considerable umbers were under arms throughout 1939. The places of e men called up would partly be taken by the million old d retired persons brought back to industry, 500s000 male corkers recruited from the school-leaving age group, by zoopoo omen. by some 500,000 volunteer foreigners and more than 600,000 prisoners of war available for agriculture. The facts xdicate that Germany is seriously affected by the problem of finding enough men to keep all her essential activities in vigour.
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