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

Witold Medykowski

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2018

Macht Arbeit Frei?

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

Witold Medykowski
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

In the series Jews of Poland

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618119087

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About this book

This is the first ever study to address Jewish forced labor in the General Government (Poland) during the Holocaust, and its consequences on the Nazi regime. A fascinating book about mutual dependence of economics and warfare during one of the most difficult periods in human history.

Author / Editor information

Witold W. Mędykowski is a historian and political scientist. He is a graduate of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin and Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in political science at the Institute of Political Studies — Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and his PhD in Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests lie mainly in Polish–Jewish relations, the Holocaust, World War II, ethnic conflicts, economics, political science, and archival science

Reviews

“Witold Medykowski’s book is a carefully researched study of the Nazis’ deeply conflicted approaches to using Jewish forced labor in the General Government from the conquest of Poland to the large-scale extermination campaign of Aktion Reinhard. While Medykowski addresses his arguments to a wide variety of scholars, the work’s primary value lies in its illumination of the bureaucratic and ideological confusion at the heart of the National Socialist regime, as well as the response of Polish Jews to the terrifying uncertainty of life under Nazi occupation. One of the volume’s strengths is the author’s command of both primary and secondary sources in Polish as well as German, and his extensive research in Polish, Israeli, and German archives.”

—Jesse Kauffman, Eastern Michigan University, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part One
CHAPTER 1. The War against Poland and the Beginning of German Economic Policy in the Occupied Territory Open Access Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2. Forced Labor from the Period of Military Government Until the Beginning of Ghettoization Open Access Download PDF	18
CHAPTER 3. Forced Labor in the Ghettos and Labor Detachments Open Access Download PDF	74
CHAPTER 4. Forced Labor in the Labor Camps Open Access Download PDF	134
Part Two Open Access Download PDF	181
CHAPTER 5. The War in the East: Galicia during the First Weeks of the War Open Access Download PDF	181
CHAPTER 6. Jewish Labor in Galicia Open Access Download PDF	193
CHAPTER 7. Jewish Labor in the Shadow of the Aktion Reinhardt Open Access Download PDF	221
CHAPTER 8. War Industry Requirements in the Face of Annihilation of the Workforce Open Access Download PDF	246
CHAPTER 9. Harvest Festival (Erntefest)—Extermination of the Remaining Jews in the District of Lublin Open Access Download PDF	273
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	292
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	320
Archival Sources Open Access Download PDF	323
Maps Open Access Download PDF	326
Tables Open Access Download PDF	333
Photographs Open Access Download PDF	364
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	381
Index Open Access Download PDF	407

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 454
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 32

eBook

Published: November 14, 2018
ISBN: 9781618119087