NAZI WAR PRODUCTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 5

NAZI WAR PRODUCTION

STEADY RISE CLAIMED MINISTERS OPTIMISTIC (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 9. Two German Ministers optimistically referred to German war production to-day. According to the Berlin radio, the Minister of Production, Professor Albert Speer, said: “In the fifth year of war every reserve available must be brought to bear in the decisive battles which are imminent. Thanks to the present state of our armaments, which is still favourable in spite of enemy terror attacks, the necessary prerequisites for this exist.” The Minister of Labour, Dr Robert Ley, said: “In spite of phosphorus leaves and high explosives our production output is steadily rising. The German miner in the fifth year

of war is producing more than in the first year. The foundry worker is producing more, the armaments industry more, and the farmer more.” Captain Dietmar, broadcasting over the Berlin radio, said the time had come for thg Germans to use their carefully hoarded reserves, but with care and only at points at which they were immediately required. All the available men must therefore be drafted to the fighting lines and the rear areas of the battlefield must be combed for soldiers. , .