NOW OR NEVER
BIG GERMAN DRIVE
PRODUCTION OF WAR NEEDS
LONDON, February 18,
An official of the Ministry of Economic Warfare describes how Germany is now engaged in the greatest war production drive the country has ever known. These latest Nazi efforts are described as a special spurt over a period of six months.
Textile industries are being closed down to provide more workers for German war production, and the newly appointed director of rationalisation issued a decree this month ordering the pooling of trade secrets between all factories- making similar goods. There has also been a drive for foreign labour, and German newspapers forecast the conscription of workers in occupied Europe.
It is also stated that the Nazis ara making a plan to recruit more juvenile labour, and to that end the agricul-! tural youth service has increased its membership from 20,000 to 200,000. Even workers suffering from tuber-s culosis are now allowed in Germani factories, and blind people are being specially trained in war work. Th« Nazi leaders are in fact conveying thet, impression that for Germany it is no-WT/ or never. . . ■; '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7
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184NOW OR NEVER Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7
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