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Classicioation of Personnel
a) General Classification
115, Classification of OT personnel.
OT personnel can be considered from several points of view.
classified as follows:
5) Women.
OT female personnel have been listed in the appropriate
the entire area in which the firm was active; (2) the latter s
(3) their foremen, for the greater part skilled in excavation and
the OT. The two former carried OT officer rank. The last two
(Labour Petachnents)
iii; Camps.
124. Personal Lager (Camps).
Personal Lager (Camps) or Lager, as they are commonly called,
are situated as near to construction sites as i s found practicable,
the furthest distance on record in the West, being twenty miles.
Efforts are made to keep men of the same nationality together.
Thus barracks housing men of one nationality form "centres'*, e.g.,
Centre francais, in charge of a HilfslagerfUhrer (see para. 118
v i . above). Worker detachments assigned to a particular OT-firm
are similarly billeted together as far as possible. This dual
arrangement does not ordinarily involve complications, inasmuch
as foreign worker detachments are assigned to particular firms
not only on the basis of their occupational s k i l l and specialty
(or lack of either) but also on the basis of race and nationality.
Thus, for example, certain firms are considered to be peculiarly
equipped to employ Jewish workers.
The barracks are standardised in several types and contain
accommodations for from 78 to about 150 men. The average camp
contains accommodations for about 500 men. Camps holding more than
2 000 are considered impractical. For the duties of the Lager
fflhrer (Camp supervisor ) see para.118 v i i . above.
In the autumn of 192*4, co-operation between the OT Front
fuhrung and the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (Diff1: German Labour Front,
see IIG94i) became closer than i t had ever been before in respect
to ttie control of OT worker camps. It i s not known, however, to
what extent the USF put the f a c i l i t i e s of their Gemeinschaftslager
(Group Personnel Camps) at the disposal of the OT.
c) Administrative Personnel.
OT-firms.
and 6b.
draftsmen and foreman technicians, in the Crimea and the Donetz Basin.
head cooks, and foremen of all types have to attend these courses.
Of all the special units in any way connected with the OT,
also takes part in the training of OT leaders (see para. 130 above).
Its German personnel is, for the most part, composed of men with
example, not uncommon to find an SK man with only one arm. For
the most part, however, its ranks are filled by trusted foreigners*
of the war and has remained so ever since* In the beginning all
the skilled workers were Germans who had learned their trade at home
courses, for German and foreign personnel alike, usually ran for
their own trade* Host of these schools in the EGW were in the
their own schools and courses, the OT within the Reich maintains
Elementary courses are given at the Main Induction Camps and the
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all times, on and off duty and on leave. Only in cases of special
civilian clothes, and then only with the permission of the OBL
Foreigners more often than not, simply wear tteir own clothes,
mark (see Table V)* Insofar as they are permitted to wear any
uniform at all they must buy all items of clothing and equipment*
The lower the status of the worker, the less care he receives, and
home office of his firm in the Reich and his OT Construction Site,
the salute of their own country. They must, however, salute all
officers and NCO f s in the OT, the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party*
see IIH)7O-71»
and enlisted men (other ranks) are of the same cut and colour, the
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different sectors*
this change has actually taken place has been received. The most
to cover the Swastika armband with a grey cloth in the event of oontact
on loan from the Org. Todt). Certain issues of the Dienstbuch however,
die DAP erhalten". (Received in camp on loan from the DAP: Deutscher
German Frontarbeiter (Front Zone workers) are issued the following items!
1 cap
1 jacket
1 pair of trousers
1 Swastika brassard
1 pair of leggings
2 under shirts
3 pairs of socks
2 working shirts
2 handkerchiefs
1 pair of overalls
1 bread bag
1 field pack
1 water bottle
1 cup
1 overcoat
1 pullover
1 pair of gloves
1 Swastika brassa
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In special cases arctic or tropical clothing i s also issued*
1 cap
1 Jacket
1 pair of trousers
The individual camps issue blankets and in some oases also mess-
kits which have to turned in when a man i s moved* As of February 1943>
every man in EGW had to have a gas-mask and a steel helmet*
136* Decorations
Members of the OT may be awarded Wehrmacht decorations* The
following medals are l i s t e d in the OT Dienstbaorh (Bay and Identity Book):
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