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DECLASSIFIED
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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
APPEND: IX 19
Dept. of State letter, Au 4-10-74
BIRLING NARS Date 6.30.75
MEMORANDUM
reparation
consideration
rearuitment
Mr. E. W. Pauley
TO:
substitute
Mr. R. G. Sproul, for Committee #1
in TPCOG
FROM:
consent
to
SUBJECT:
Labor Reparations.
The present directive on the subject of labor
reparation as contained in IPCOG 2/2 provides that
"Compulsory labor service (outside Germany)
should be required only from those judicially
convicted as war criminals, including individuals
determined
to be members of European
Axis organizations, official or unofficial, which
themselves have been adjudicated to be criminal
in purpose or activities.
The restrictions contained in the foregoing directive
would make it impossible to obtain an amount of German
labor reasonably adequate for European reconstruction. The
total number of laborers subject to recruitment under the
directive has been estimated to be under two million. Of
these, many will be unfit for work and many others will never
be apprehended. It would be extremely difficult to obtain
voluntary labor to serve in the USSR, and, unless conditions
in Germany become nuch worse than they have been until now,
the same may be true with regard to other countries.
As compared with the million or 1 1/2 million laborers
that probably could be obtained under the IPCOG formula,
unofficial estimates suggest that the total demand for German
labor for reconstruction purposes may run to 6 or 7 million
and possibly more.
Under these circumstances, the IPCOG formula on labor
will undoubtedly be completely unacceptable to the major
reparation claimants, and especially the USSR, and insistence
upon it by the United States representative on the ACR is
certain to lead to an impasse. It is believed, furthermore,
that the rapid reconstruction of Europe, which is a major
United States objective, requires the use of a greater amount
of German labor than is possible under the present instructions.
: ARCHIVES CHATIONAL SERVICE" KICORDS AND
SECRET
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