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By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated
by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in
from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia,
Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were established,
adding to the approximately forty camps that already existed. The
inmates were Jews from Hungary and Poland who had been deported
from the Lodz ghetto or who had been included on the infamous
"Schindler's List." These camps became satellites of the
Gross-Rosen concentration camp and were the last to be liberated.
Throughout their existence, the Gross-Rosen camp and its satellites
had a special relationship. This is why, although the process of
genocide was proceeding at top speed, some Jews were diverted from
the gas chambers and sent to work at Gross-Rosen.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the main provider of inmate slave laborers
for the Gross-Rosen armaments, munitions, and other factories owned
by giant private enterprises, such as Krupp, I.G. Farben, and
Siemens. Jewish inmates were also used in the construction of
Hitler's secret headquarters in the local Eulen Mountains and the
secret underground tunnels used to store weapons. This book adds
greatly to our knowledge of the complexity of German policy toward
the Jews and forced labor. It not only describes the daily life of
Jewish slave laborers but also traces Reich economic policy and the
big corporations that used forced labor.
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