During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working for private companies and public agencies in industry, administration and agriculture. In addition, there were 4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced labour in concentration or similar camps or were 'rented out' or sold by the SS. While there are numerous publications on forced labour in National Socialist Germany during World War II, this publication combines a historical account of events with the biographies and memories of former forced labourers from twenty-seven countries, offering a comparative international perspective.

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Berghahn Books

Year

2010

eBook ISBN

9781845459901

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Topic

History

Subtopic

20th Century History

Index

History

HITLER’S SLAVES
Contents
Foreword
Part I
Introduction
Part II
Chapter 1. Reports from Germany on Forced and Slave Labour
Chapter 2. Work, Repression and Death after the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 3. Czechs as Forced and Slave Labourers during the Second World War
Chapter 4. Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
Chapter 5. 'You can't say it out loud. And you can't forget.': Polish Experiences of Slave and Forced Labour for the 'Third Reich'
Chapter 6. The Fate of Polish Slave and Forced Labourers from Łódź
Chapter 7. Interviews with Polish Roma: A Report of My Experiences
Chapter 8. The French Experience: STO, a Memory to Collect, a History to Write
Chapter 9. The Experiences of Hungarian Slave and Forced Labourers
Chapter 10. 'Mother, are the apples at home ripe yet?": Slovenian Forced and Slave Labourers during the Second World War
Chapter 11. Of Silence and Remembrance: Forced Labour and the NDH, and the History of their Remembrance
Chapter 12. 'If you lose your freedom, you lose everything.': The Experiences and Memories of Serbian Forced Labourers
Chapter 13. They Survived Two Wars: Bosnian Roma as Civil War Refugees in Germany
Chapter 14. Forced Labour in Bulgaria 1941–1944: Tracing the Memories
Chapter 15. Lithuania 1941–1944: Slave and Forced Labourers Remember
Chapter 16. Belarusian Forced Labourers: Types and Recruitment Methods
Chapter 17. Forced and Slave Labour in Belarus: Experiences, Coping Strategies and Personal Accounts
Chapter 18. The Experience of Forced Labourers from Galician Ukraine
Chapter 19. Oral Histories of Former Ukrainian Ostarbeiter: Preliminary Results of Analysis
Chapter 20. Oral Testimonies from Russian Victims of Forced Labour
Chapter 21. The Experience of Citizens of the Former Soviet Union as Forced Labourers in Nazi Germany
Chapter 22. Presenting Life in Captivity: Oral Testimonies of Former Forced and Slave Labourers from St Petersburg and the Russian Northwest
Chapter 23. Women's Biographies and Women's Memory of War
Chapter 24. The Deportation of the Italians 1943–45
Chapter 25. Former Forced Labourers as Immigrants in Great Britain after 1945
Chapter 26. Slave Labour and Shoah: A View from Israel
Chapter 27. International Slave and Forced Labour Documentation Project: United States, Atlanta, Georgia
Chapter 28. Forced and Slave Labour in the Context of the Jewish Holocaust Experience
Part III
Chapter 29. A Memorial for the Persecuted, Materials for Education and Science: The Compilation of Biographies of Former Slave and Forced Labourers
Chapter 30. 'A moment of elation … and painful': The Homecoming of Slave and Forced Labourers after the Second World War
Chapter 31. Witnesses at the First Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt
Chapter 32. Twenty-five Years Later: Revisitng Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors
Chapter 33. It Was Modern Slavery: Some Results of the Documentation Project on Forced and Slave Labour
Appendix 1. Interview Guidelines
Appendix 2. Timeline: Forced Labour and Compensation
Appendix 3. Interview Partners
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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