HC Deb 01 December 1947 vol 445 c9
18. Mr. Heathcoat Amory

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what the 5,000 Germans at present employed in German war plants scheduled for demolition in the British zone are producing.

Mr. Mayhew

They are employed in repairs to railway material, maintaining machinery which is to go as reparation, and in work for the forces of occupation.