SESSION Vil 363 WARREN: Lunderstand from some of the carlier meetings that we had long ago that the worst police problem was the person looking for his wife or family or child. Murders were co:rinitted; they would steal food and disrupt communities and they would be gone the next morning or even that day, looking, looking, looking, and they wouldn't subscribe to any discipline, They would do no work because they hadn't found their family yet. We went to great trouble in Civil Defense to try to devise a way of reporting survivors and their location and get communications back and forth to locate absent members of the farnily. One of the important elements that would determine whether a civil defense organization would stand still for the attack was the safeguarding of the family for a man who had a responsible position. Could he be guaranteed that his wife and children and other dependents would be safe while he carried out his assignment’ I don't think this has been solved yet. HEMLER: The military has set upa rather elaborate network for doing just this. WARREN: Yes, a very elaborate one. HEMLER: Because one of the original problems considered was the fact that here you have a commander of a garrison and no matter how’ he,maybe regimented, if he doesn't know that his family is well taken care of, how well will he react to taking and to giving orders” WARKEN: post? Yes. . Would he go looking for them and abandon his - HEMLER: Right. Not only him. He may be regimented enough but how about the men under him; the troops that he needs to use to direct and control, WARREN: That's right. SPEAR: This was brought out also in the ‘Goebbels Diaries” (Reference 59), Urecall that he was quoting Albert Speer (.0 kin!), who reported that where German production centers had been heavily bombed and damage had been done to the factory and workers as wel! as their homes, they were able ina fairly short time to make repairs that would have kept them at, say, sixty-five percent cof production.. But they couldn't even make a start on significant production until the i . §