-2- rate of production in the occupied countries of Europe have, contrary to the expectations cherished, not improved markedly up to this time. The controlled government in the occupied countries of Europe have not provided any surplus despite the employment of German military and civil administrative executives. In these occupied areas the Difficulties respecting foodstuffs, feeding stuffs and raw materials are felt more than in Germany, because there is a lack , to a great extent, of the positive economic conditions as to transportation, and adequate stocks of materials. Thus the surplus in Germany's miliatary and economic potential thatw as calculated in the winter months of 1940-41 has turned out less than was expected and made the basis for miliatary decisions. -3- For the sake of an orderly course of bussiness, portions of the valuable industrila plants of western, southwestern and northwestern Germany are constantly being moved to central and southern Germany and Austria, including Silesia and Bohemia-Moravia. Because of this, delays in production occur, overburdening of the railroads, difficulties in transplanting tha labor forces, ect. It has not been possible to conduct this shifting |