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Builders of the Third Reich : the Organisation Todt and Nazi forced labour /

This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reich's vast slave labour programme together with the SS, Wehrmacht and industry. The book breaks new ground by revealing the full extent of the organisation's brutal and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dick, Charles (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Subjects:
Organisation Todt (Germany) > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Engineering and construction.
Engineering > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Forced labor > Europe > History > 20th century.
Slave labor > Europe > History > 20th century.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • The OT in Hitler's empire
  • Plunder in Europe
  • The OT in the Nazi system
  • Slave labourers under the OT
  • Engineers as slave drivers
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Maps, documents and tables.