740.00119 Control (Germany)/10–3145
The Czechoslovak Minister for Foreign Affairs (Masaryk) to the American Ambassador in Czechoslovakia (Steinhardt)60
Dear Ambassador: Referring to your note of the 5th inst., No. 239,61 in which, under instructions from your Government, you expressed the desire to receive for the Interallied Control Council in Berlin information regarding the number of Germans to be transferred out of the Czechoslovak Republic, together with reports as to their age/ showing the persons over sixty and under twelve/, sex and occupation, I beg to inform you that for transfer there come into consideration 2,500.000 Germans and that their classification as to sex and age is as follows:
| Boys under 12 years of age | 322.000 |
| Girls “ “ “ “ “ | 314.000 |
| Men from 13 to 60 years of age | 541.500 |
| Women “ “ “ “ “ “ “ | 1,010.000 |
| Men over 60 years of age | 140.500 |
| Women “ “ “ “ “ | 172.000 |
| total | 2,500.000 |
The classification as to occupation/this applies to employees and the members of their families/is as follows:
| in percent | number of inhabitants | |
| agriculture | 22 | 550.000 |
| forestry | 1.6 | 40.000 |
| mines and forges | 1.2 | 30.000 |
| other industry | 43 | 1,075.000 |
| commerce and finances | 8.5 | 212.500 |
| transport | 4 | 100.000 |
| public services and free professions | 4.5 | 112.500 |
| household and personal services | 2.9 | 72.500 |
| other occupations | 12.3 | 307.500 |
| 100.% | 2,500.000 |
The above statistics are the result of various administrative inquiries made under complicated post-war conditions. Possible inaccuracies, however, in respect of the categories in question may fluctuate merely within the limits of an insignificant percentage.
Exact and absolutely indisputable information could only be provided by a regular census. This as well as the working up of the obtained figures would even under normal conditions require long preparations. Under the present circumstances a regular census could not be carried out.
Accept [etc.]