Arbeitseinsatz
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Arbeitseinsatz (labour intake) was forced labour (Zwangsarbeit) during World War II when German men were called up for military service and German authorities rounded up labourers in the occupied territories to fill in the vacancies. Arbeitseinsatz was not restriced to the industry sector and to arm factories, it also took place e.g. in the farming sector, commmunity services, even in the church. Concerned were men and women from Eastern Europe (Ostarbeiter), prisoners of war, Dutchmen, prisoners of concentration camps, Gestapo prisoners, Jews, Sinti, Romanies and Yenish, Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1945 about 7.7 million workers in the German industry were of non-German origin. Many of them were very young, about half of them were women.
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- Forced Laborers in the "Third Reich" - By Ulrich Herbert
- Interest Group for Former Forced Labourers under the Nazi Regime
- List of 2500 firms that employed forced labourers
- German firms that used slave or forced labor during the Nazi era
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