Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
44,9 (1996) 789-808
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
;
Jews
;
World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Observes that in spite of the policy of ridding the Reich of Jews, wartime manpower requirements forced the authorities to draft Jewish labor for work in the Reich, at first in roadbuilding and later in war industries. Between 1939-43 there were more than 210 labor camps for non-German (mainly Polish) Jews on German territory, in addition to 125 camps for German Jews. At first, when the camps were run by the Reichsautobahn authority, the laborers enjoyed certain minimal employees' privileges, though they were guarded by SS; in 1942 the SS took over and these privileges stopped. Finally, at the time of the Fabrikaktion in February 1943, many of the camps were liquidated and the more important ones were annexed to concentration camps. A similar process took place earlier and on an even larger scale in Silesia under the Organisation Schmelt of the SS.
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