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25 July 1942 Part 6

Summary

Organisation Todt island construction workforce.

Location Details

Jersey; Guernsey; Alderney; St Malo; Cherbourg; Normandy

Diary Entry

25 July 1942 Organisation Todt island construction workforce

Editorial note: Selected island-related text and translated chart keys; original symbols and numerical tables are retained in the images. Uncertain small annotations are not silently expanded.

Organisation Todt deployment in the Seventh Army area, as at 25 July 1942. OT Normandy at St Malo controls the construction offices on Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey, alongside Cherbourg and St Malo.

Island figures as printed: Alderney, 671 Germans and 1,257 foreigners, total 1,928 workers; Guernsey, 773 Germans and 4,496 foreigners, total 5,269; Jersey, 1,621 Germans and 4,265 foreigners, total 5,886. The chart’s categories are the original administrative classifications; they do not distinguish individual workers’ legal status or conditions.

English key: Einsatzgruppe, deployment group; Oberbauleitung, senior construction office; Bauleitung, construction office; Deutsche, Germans; Ausländer, foreigners; Arbeiter, workers.

Original source image 0268.jpg — T-312 Roll 1547. Organisation Todt island construction workforce.

Source of Information 

German Seventh Army records, T-312 Roll 1547, 28680/23, order of battle annexes. Supplied translation T312 Roll 1547 English translation DRAFT.docx. Local source scans: 0268.jpg.

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