Macht Arbeit Frei? German Economic Policy and Forced Labor of Jews in the General Government, 1939-1943

Macht Arbeit Frei? German Economic Policy and Forced Labor of Jews in the General Government, 1939-1943

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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: Mędykowski, Witold (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Academic Studies Press 2018
Series:Jews of Poland
Subjects:
History
Forced labor
Slave labor
Economic exploitation
World War II
World War 2
WWII
World War Two
Economic policy
Holocaust on the Polish lands
Nazism
Ghettos
Armament industry
War industry
Holocaust
Jewish history
Jews of Poland
Poland
Polish Jews
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Summary: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 Jews, for whom "labor"''s original understanding as a means of subsistence came to be redefined as a means of survival. The changing meaning of other key terms are examined in detail; these include, among others, "forced labor" (Zwangsarbeit), "slave labor" (Sklavenarbeit). The volume carefully analyzes the modus operandi of the Nazi system of power, in which bureaucracy ballooned, there were conflicts of interest between different institutions, and there was a total destruction of human and moral values, which led to extensive degeneration.
ISBN:j.ctv75d8v5
9781618119087
Access:Open Access

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