Jewish Forced Labor: From Coerced Segregated Deployment to Slave Labor, 1938–1945

doi:10.1017/9781108900447.007

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Wolf Gruner

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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After Kristallnacht, the Nazis introduced forced labor for German Jews. Later, over a million Jewish men and women toiled for private and public enterprises in Europe and North Africa. Changing economic needs and persecution goals during the war determined timing, purpose, inhumane labor conditions, and chances of survival in each territory.

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Germany Austria Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Poland segregated labor deployment labor offices private companies public builders labor and concentration camps SS Wehrmacht Organisation Todt

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 68 - 83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.007 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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