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Builders of the Third Reich - The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour (Hardcover)
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Builders of the Third Reich - The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour (Hardcover)
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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 murderous operations across
occupied Europe and in the Reich. For the first time, Charles Dick
provides a strong voice for camp survivors overseen by the OT,
drawing on an extensive collection of personal accounts and
analysing the violence they endured. Builders of the Third Reich
shows Hitler used the OT, which had a labour force of around 1.5
million people in 1944, as an instrument of subjugation and
occupation to project German imperial power. Drawing on a broad
range of primary sources, it demonstrates how the organisation
participated in the plunder of Europe’s raw materials and
manpower, greatly boosting the German war economy. The book reveals
how OT staff shot, beat or worked tens of thousands of prisoners to
death, both within the SS-run concentration camp system and outside
it, with analysis of OT operations showing that where it had sole,
or very high levels of control over camps, prisoner death rates
were extremely high. Examining how engineers and builders,
individuals who fitted the category of ‘ordinary men’ as
precisely as any other group so far examined by historians,
perpetrated war crimes, this volume reflects on how few OT
personnel were interrogated or came to trial and how the
organisation passed largely under the radar of post-war
prosecutors, researchers and the general public.
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