Forced Labor and "foreign Workers" in the Third Reich - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forced Labor and "foreign Workers" in the Third Reich write by Wolfgang Richter. This book was released on 2009. Forced Labor and "foreign Workers" in the Third Reich available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The introduction of a foreign labor force was a central strategic economic and military factor for Hitler's Nazi regime. By late autumn of 1941, if not before, the entire German war economy had become heavily and irreversibly dependent on foreign labor. There is no evidence of a masterplan for a comprehensive foreign labor program in Germany before World War II. The employment of foreign workers was rather an emergency solution to the manpower shortage during the war; this solution then developed from voluntary foreign labor to forced labor. Although the Nazi regime relaxed some regulations towards the end of the war, it never abandoned its ideological racism. The treatment of forced laborers by various Nazi agencies, as well as by employers was based on the regime's racist ideology and was passively accepted by the civilian population. The German population's attitude was indeed characterized by their indifference towards the fate of forced laborers and their tacit acceptance of the inequality prevailing in the country. Consequently, the German population became a reticent enabler of the Third Reich's racist ideology. This passive acceptance of the regime's racism is one big factor in the success of its program of forced labor.
Hitler's Foreign Workers
Hitler's Foreign Workers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitler's Foreign Workers write by Ulrich Herbert. This book was released on 1997-03-13. Hitler's Foreign Workers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the millions of foreign workers imported into Germany during the Second World War.
Working for the Enemy
Working for the Enemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working for the Enemy write by Reinhold Billstein. This book was released on 2004. Working for the Enemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, now the headquarters of European Ford. In this book, historians tell the astonishing story of what happened at Opel and Ford Werke under the Third Reich, and of the aftermath today. Long before the Second World War, key American executives at Ford and General Motors were eager to do business with Nazi Germany. Ford Werke and Opel became indispensable suppliers to the German armed forces, together providing most of the trucks that later motorized the Nazi attempt to conquer Europe. After the outbreak of war in 1939, Opel converted its largest factory to warplane parts production, and both companies set up extensive maintenance and repair networks to help keep the war machine on wheels. During the war, the Nazi Reich used millions of POWs, civilians from German-occupied countries, and concentration camp prisoners as forced laborers in the German homefront economy. Starting in 1940, Ford Werke and Opel also made use of thousands of forced laborers. POWs and civilian detainees, deported to Germany by the Nazi authorities, were kept at private camps owned and managed by the companies. In the longest section of the book, ten people who were forced to work at Ford Werke recall their experiences in oral testimonies. For more than fifty years, legal and political obstacles frustrated efforts to gain compensation for Nazi-era forced labor; in the most recent case, a $12 billion lawsuit was filed against the computer giant I.B.M. by a group of Gypsy organizations. In 1998, former forced laborers filed dozens of class action lawsuits against German corporations in U.S. courts. The concluding chapter reviews the subsequent, immensely complex negotiations towards a settlement - which involved Germany, the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Czech Republic, Israel and several other countries, as well as dozens of well-known German corporations.
A French Slave in Nazi Germany
A French Slave in Nazi Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A French Slave in Nazi Germany write by Elie Poulard. This book was released on 2016-09-15. A French Slave in Nazi Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s willing collaboration in providing the Nazi regime with French manpower to replace German workers sent to fight in the war. The result was the deportation of 600,000 young Frenchmen to Germany, where they worked under the harshest conditions. Elie Poulard was one of the Frenchmen forced into labor by the Vichy government. Translated by his brother Jean V. Poulard, Elie’s memoir vividly captures the lives of a largely unrecognized group of people who suffered under the Nazis. He describes in great detail his ordeal at different work sites in the Ruhr region, the horrors that he witnessed, and the few Germans who were good to him. Through this account of one eyewitness on the ground, we gain a vivid picture of Allied bombing in the western part of Germany and its contribution to the gradual collapse and capitulation of Germany at the end of the war. Throughout his ordeal, Elie's Catholic faith, good humor, and perseverance sustained him. Little has been published in French or English about the use of foreign workers by the Nazi regime and their fate. The Poulards’ book makes an important contribution to the historiography of World War II, with its firsthand account of what foreign workers endured when they were sent to Nazi Germany. The memoir concludes with an explanation of the ongoing controversy in France over the opposition to the title Déporté du Travail, which those who experienced this forced deportation, like Elie, gave themselves after the war.
Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany
Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany write by Edward L. Homze. This book was released on 2015-12-08. Foreign Labor in Nazi Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During World War II, Germany recruited over eight million foreign laborers from her allies, the neutral countries, and the occupied territories. This book describes the inception, organization, and administration of the Nazi foreign labor program and its relationship to the over-all economy and government. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
