I wish this morning to show what the official propaganda was which was given out by the German offices in France in order to persuade volunteers to work in Germany. The effect of this official propaganda was reinforced by the clandestine bureaux of recruitment. Offices for clandestine recruiting were organised by the occupation authorities, apart from the administrative services, whose activities they completed. These employments bureaus were directed by German agents who often succeeded in acquiring local accomplices. In France these bureaus extended their ramifications in the non- occupied as well as in the occupied zone.
Several documents attest to their existence.
It is Document 654 of the French archives. This report is drawn up under the seal of Vice-President of the Council Darlan. It bears the signature of an officer of the latter's General Staff, Commander de Fontaine.