Hitler's Slaves : : Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe / / ed. by Alexander von Plato, Almut Leh, Christoph Thonfeld.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bejarano, Margalit,; Belanovich, Alesja,; Boasson, Amija,; Bodenstab, Johanna,; Cohen, Rose Lerer,; Czerwiakowski, Ewa,; Dalhouski, Alexander,; Felsen, Doris,; Filipkowski, Piotr,; Frenkel, Viviana,; Ghitis, Sara,; Granet-Abisset, Anne-Marie,; Grinchenko, Gelinada,; Hansen, Imke,; Jakschová, Viola,; Jarská, Šárka,; Knellessen, Dagi,; Kovács, Éva,; Kočevar, Monika Kokalj,; Lapan, Tetyana,; Laub, Dori,; Leh, Almut,; Luleva, Ana,; Madoń-Mitzner, Katarzyna,; Mair, Birgit,; Nikitina, Olga,; Plato, Alexander von,; Podgorski, Artur,; Reznikova, Anna,; Riegel, Joachim,; Rozhdestvenskaya, Elena,; Scherbakova, Irina,; Schlesinger, Henriette,; Schölzel, Christian,; Semenova, Victoria,; Thonfeld, Christoph,; Timofeyeva, Natalia,; Vilanova, Mercedes,; Weinberger, Ruth,; Wenzel, Gisela,; Wiesinger, Barbara N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Leh, Almut,; Plato, Alexander von,; Thonfeld, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- I -- Introduction -- II -- 1. Reports from Germany on Forced and Slave Labour -- 2. Work, Repression and Death after the Spanish Civil War -- 3. Czechs as Forced and Slave Labourers during the Second World War -- 4. Slovak Republic (1939–1945) -- 5. ‘You can’t say it out loud. And you can’t forget’ -- 6. The Fate of Polish Slave and Forced Labourers from Łódz -- 7. Interviews with Polish Roma -- 8. The French Experience -- 9. The Experiences of Hungarian Slave and Forced Labourers -- 10. ‘Mother, are the apples at home ripe yet?’ -- 11. Of Silence and Remembrance -- 12. ‘If you lose your freedom, you lose everything’ -- 13. They Survived Two Wars -- 14. Forced Labour in Bulgaria 1941–1944 -- 15. Lithuania 1941–1944 -- 16. Belarusian Forced Labourers -- 17. Forced and Slave Labour in Belarus -- 18. The Experience of Forced Labourers from Galician Ukraine -- 19. Oral Histories of Former Ukrainian Ostarbeiter -- 20. Oral Testimonies from Russian Victims of Forced Labour -- 21. The Experience of Citizens of the Former Soviet Union as Forced Labourers in Nazi Germany -- 22. Presenting Life in Captivity -- 23. Women’s Biographies and Women’s Memory of War -- 24. The Deportation of the Italians 1943–1945 -- 25. Former Forced Labourers as Immigrants in Great Britain after 1945 -- 26. Slave Labour and Shoah -- 27. International Slave and Forced Labour Documentation Project -- 28. Forced and Slave Labour in the Context of the Jewish Holocaust Experience -- III -- 29. A Memorial for the Persecuted, Materials for Education and Science -- 30. ‘A moment of elation … and painful’ -- 31. Witnesses at the First Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt -- 32. Twenty-five Years Later -- 33. It Was Modern Slavery -- Appendix 1: Interview Guidelines -- Appendix 2: Timeline -- Appendix 3: Interview Partners -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index