Trends of German War Effort Note by Sec.

with the loss of the French ports and U-boat bases, the Navy has been able to draft a considerable number of shore service personnel into the Army. Military 2. Paragraph 4. This is the third "total mobilisation" which has been decreed. Though it is true the Germans are drafting into the Army every available man the results are not formidable either in numbers or quality. During the last six months of 1944 only three quarters of a million men, including 100,000 foreigners will have been taken from civilian occupations and put into the armed forces, as compared with an estimate of at least 2,000,000 permanent casualties on all fronts during this period.