Arbeitseinsatz

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Memorial for three executed Polish forced laborers on Finkenberg mountain, Bonn.

Personnel document from the time of the German occupation of Lithuania.

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 from the occupied territories to fill in the vacancies. Arbeitseinsatz was not restricted to the industry sector and to arms factories, it also took place e.g. in the farming sector, community services, and even in the churches. Affected populations included men and women from Eastern Europe (Ostarbeiter), prisoners of war, Dutchmen, prisoners of concentration camps, Gestapo prisoners, Jews, Sinti, Romany, Yenish, and 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, and about half of them were women.

[edit] External links

• 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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