Macht Arbeit frei? : Forced labor of Jews in the General Government during the years 1939-1943 / Witold Wojciech Medykowski.

Macht Arbeit frei? : Forced labor of Jews in the General Government during the years 1939-1943 /

This book examines the forced labor of Jews in the General Government of Occupied Poland from 1939-1943. Specifically, it traces the bureaucratic understanding and use the terms "labor" and "work" in the General Government; it also examines how these terms figured in the lives of...

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Main Author: Medykowski, Witold Wojciech (Author)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Series:Jews of Poland.
Subjects:
Forced labor > Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) > History > 20th century.
Forced labor > Poland > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Poland.
Table of Contents:
  • The war against Poland and the beginning of German economic policy in the occupied territory
  • Forced labor from the period of military government until the beginning of ghettoization
  • Forced labor in the ghettos and labor detachments
  • Forced labor in the labor camps
  • The war in the East: Galicia during the first weeks of the war
  • Jewish labor in Galicia
  • Jewish labor in the shadow of the Aktion Reinhardt
  • War industry requirements in the face of annihilation of the workforce
  • "Harvest festival" (Erntefest)-extermination of the remaining Polish Jews.

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