Hitler's foreign workers : enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich

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Hitler's foreign workers : enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Ulrich Herbert ; translated by William Templer

Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Fremdarbeiter : Politik und Praxis des 'Ausländer-Einsatzes' in der Kriegswirtschaft des Dritten Reiches

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Translated from the German. Original German ed. published: Bonn : Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger GmbH , 1985

Includes bibliographical notes (p. 397-477), bibliography (p. 478-495), and index

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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. These 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 sustain 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. 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.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Prelude: the practical experience of World War I
  • 3. The prehistory of foreign labor deployment
  • 4. 1939-40: the deployment of Polish labor as an experiment
  • 5. Blitzkrieg euphoria and extensive labor deployment
  • 6. Labor deployment instead of annihilation: policy on foreigners in 1942
  • 7. Racism and material constraints: foreign labor deployment in 1942
  • 8. 1943-44: Policy on foreigners in the midst of total war
  • 9. Integration and terror: the practice of foreign labor deployment, 1943-44
  • 10. The dynamism of violence: the final phase of the war
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • The Hans Boeckler Foundation
  • Index.

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