Chapter 123
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July 20th, 1940
Berlin, Northern Germany
The Fourth Reich was preparing an additional mobilization of 500,000 men for the upcoming war with France, and furthermore, the Soviet Union.
Previously, we had only mobilized a military force of two million, leaving behind as much of the core workforce essential to society, such as skilled laborers, as possible.
But an additional mobilization would require conscripting a significant number of them.
We had already encouraged the placement of women and the middle-aged into empty factory positions to give them time to get used to the labor and learn skills from the experts, but it’s not like they could become skilled workers in less than a year.
A certain degree of damage to our industrial capability would be inevitable.
So, to mitigate that even a little, we decided to recruit a large number of female support personnel.