ENSLAVEMENT OF PRODUCTION

Evening Star, Issue 25698, 23 January 1946, Page 5

ENSLAVEMENT OF PRODUCTION

(Rec, 1.5 p.m.) NUREMBERG, January 22. The Germans appointed commissars for the exploitation in systematic economic wringing of Western European countries, said the French prosecutor, Henri Delpech, at the War Crimes Tribunal to-day. The prosecutor quoted, for example, the treatment meted out to Belgium. No section of Belgian economy was spared. The Belgian Government estimated that German exploitation during the war cost the country 2,000,000,000 Belgian francs. The Gerthoffer, dealing with the economic looting of France, said the Germans in 1940 immediately began the enslavement of all productive enterprises and the eventual disposal of nearly all of France's money. The Germane during the first year of occupation extorted from France about three times the cost of occupation. Eventually France was in fact .paying for the support of an army which was kept ready for the invasion of (Britain. The German Foreign Office report revealed that the French in four years paid £9 per head of the population in occupation and billeting charges.