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This is an account of the most important instance of forced labor by foreign workers outside their own country in the twentieth century, when millions of workers from the USSR, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Italy and elsewhere toiled in the service of the Nazi regime. The workers are examined first from the viewpoint of the Nazi leadership, the entrepreneurs and the authorities, and second through the eyes of the workers themselves.
The Nazis could pursue World War II only by replacing the skilled German workers who had been sent off as soldiers by a foreign work force brought to Germany and employed in agriculture and industry. After this scheme had failed to work on a voluntary basis, from the spring of 1940 huge numbers of foreign workers were brought to Germany by force. By 1944 one in three members of the German work force was a foreign forced laborer.
In total, more than 12 million such laborers were put to work, for varying periods. The monthly peak was reached in August 1944 when 7.8 million were working, of whom 5 million were civilians and 2.8 million prisoners of war. This is the first major study of what in effect was slave labor on a massive scale, whose reverberations are still felt today in current debates about work compensation and the legacy of the Third Reich.
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Alien labor, Alien labor, Polish, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of World War, 1939-1945, History, Polish Alien labor, World War, 1939-1945, Foreign workers, World war, 1939-1945, economic aspects, germany, Polish Foreign workers, Foreign workers--history, Foreign workers--germany--history, Foreign workers, polish--history, Foreign workers, polish--germany--history, World war, 1939-1945--economic aspects, World war, 1939-1945--economic aspects--germany, Hd8450 .h43213 1997, 000090638Places
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Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich
1997, Cambridge University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [478]-495) and index.
"Originally published in German as: Fremdarbeiter: Politik und Praxis des 'Ausländer-Einsatzes' in der Kreigswirtschaft des Dritten Reiches ... 1985"--T.p. verso.
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