Table of the numbers of deportees, prisoners of war, and political prisoners used in the German war economy

APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS PUT TO WORK FOR THE GERMAN WAR EFFORT IN THE OLD REICH
(Status January 1945)
Nationality Workers 1 P/W's Politicals TOTAL
Russians 1,900,000 600,000 11,000 2,500,000
French 764,000 750,000 1,525,000
Poles 851,000 60,000 911,000
Italians 227,000 400,000 627,000
Dutch 274,000 2,300 277,000
Belgians 183,000 63,000 8,900 254,000
Yugoslavs 230,000 230,000
Czechoslovaks 140,000 140,000
Balts 130,000 130,000
Greeks 15.000 15,000
Luxemburgers 14,000 1,000 15,000
Hungarians 10,000 10,000
Rumanians 5,000 5,000
Bulgarians 2,000 2,000
Others 50,000 50,000
Totals | 4,795,000 ! 1,873,000 I 23,200 6,691,000
Note: Of the estimated 0,391,000 approximately 2,000,000 civilian foreigners and 245,000 prisoners of war were employed directly in the manufacture of armaments and munitions (end products or components) on the 31 December 1944, according to Speer Ministry tabulations. The highest number of prisoners of war so employed was 400,000 in June 1944, the decrease to December 1944 being accounted for in part by a change in status from prisoners to civilian workers. A figure of 2,070,000 Russians uncovered in the American, British and French zones, given in "Displaced Persons Report No. 43", of the Combined Displaced Persons' Executive, c/o G-5 Division, USFET, 30 September 1945, was increased by 430,000 to allow for Russians estimated to have been found on German territory conquered by the Red Army.
I, Edward L. Deuss, for three years employed by the Foreign Economic Administration, Washington, as an economic analyst in London, Paris and Germany, specializing in labor and population problems of Germany during the war, do hereby certify that the figures of foreign labor employed in the Old Reich have been
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compiled on the basis of the best available German and Allied source material. The accompanying table represents a combination of German official estimates of foreigners working in Germany in January 1945 and of American, British and French figures of the number of foreigners actually uncovered in the Old Reich since 10 May 1945. Among the documents consulted were:
"Displaced Persons Report No. 43" of the Combined Displaced Persons' Executive, c/o G-5 Division, USFET, 30 September 1945.
Tabulations made by and for the labor officials in the Speer Ministry, found in the Speer documents collection at Dustbin detention camp, Kransberg, Hessen-Nassau.
Reports of Fritz Sauckel to the Central Planning Board and the Speer Ministry.
The designation "Politicals" at the head of the third column in the table should be taken to mean persons who upon being uncovered in Germany by the Allied forces asserted that they were arrested in their native countries for subversive activities against the Nazis, and were transported to Germany for incarceration. The figures do not include racial or religious deportees, nor persons imprisoned for crimes allegedly committed in Germany. Sworn to before me this 1st Day of November, 1945
Edward L. Deuss
Winthrop S. Emmet Lt. Comdr. USNR
J.A.G. Office of the Navy