Chapter 88: Toward Africa (1)
As America’s entry into the war was imminent, the picture became clearer than ever before. Now it was time to slowly start preparing for intervention in Europe and increase our military strength.
The problem is manpower.
It was obvious that if we massively conscripted workers to secure young manpower, it would disrupt military production.
I first tried to rack my brain.
Among the countries that participated in World War II, Germany and Japan had mobilized a large number of so-called slave labor to supplement their domestic production.
Germany mainly used Western European prisoners of war and Eastern European civilians, while Japan used Koreans and Chinese.
They may be bad examples, but they served as reference cases.
After all, we’re just as bad as them.
If we procure manpower from outside like them, wouldn’t we be able to squeeze out more people?