50,000 were Serbians, etc. Mention is made, on Page 19, of Germany's clearing debt, which amounted to 9,300,000 marks. At the same time the clearing balance for Czechoslovakia showed a deficit of 2,000,000, for the Ukraine of 82,500,000, for Serbia of 219,000,000, for Croatia of 85,000,000 and for Slovakia of 301,000,000. The prices in the occupied Eastern territories are kept at the lowest possible level. We have already realised import profits which are being used to cover Reich debts.
Wages are generally only one-fifth of what they are in Germany.
I must again stress that during the war I was no longer Plenipotentiary for Economy. First, there is the figure of the number of the workers which were brought from the occupied territories and other foreign countries into Germany. I have emphasized, myself, and it has been confirmed by other statements, that I was basically against bringing in foreign manpower from occupied territories to such an extent as to impair the economic order in those territories. I am not even speaking about recruitment of forced labour. I also opposed that.