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The work and living conditions of concentration camp inmates differed considerably from firm to firm and depended on the nature of the operation, the individual position in the race-hierarchy of the SS and, not least, the attitude of company management such as the camp commander, guard, foreman and supervisor. Above all, Jewish prisoners who were separated into special groups, suffered of exceptionally bad conditions. Overall one can safely assume that those who were employed in armament production companies had more chances of survival than prisoners who were deployed in large-scale building projects operated by SS-owned enterprises, particularly in underground plant transfer as well as in the building of caverns and tunnels to underground plants. With the building projects and the so-called Höhlenprojekt, time was of the greatest essence and conditions for the prisoners correspondingly inhumane. The completely insufficient nourishment, the unhealthy accommodations in the caverns, the murderous pace of work and above all the never ending influx of new prisoners in the often overcrowded camps intensified accordingly. As in the concentration camps themselves, by the end of 1944 a virtual hell existed in the building project camps with death rates of such proportions that the survival time for the average prisoner was not more than a few months. A person's human value was measured by what his physical condition could deliver for a few weeks. Under these conditions labor and the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of people were synonymous.
Looking at the historical significance of the Ausländer-Einsatz in its totality, it becomes clear that the German war economy depended on forced labor exclusively from the beginning of 1942 at the latest. Without forced laborers it would not have been possible to achieve the required production levels in agriculture since 1940 and not since the end of 1941 for the armament industry. Only through the Ausländer-Einsatz was it possible to maintain the food situation for the German population until the end of 1944 at the highest level of all European powers involved in the war. Not least however did the forced laborers contribute to the thrust in gigantic growth and modernization which the German economy experienced during the years of the war and armament boom which represented one of the foundations of the so rapidly upward development after 1948.
At the same time the treatment of forced laborers was not only determined by economic factors but throughout also by philosophical ones. The nature and manner of treatment was based on these; the more the Reich's military situation improved, the more severe the discriminating regulations which governed treatment according to race-related guidelines. Only to the extend that an increase in productivity was called for, such as under the pressure for military achievements, did improvements come about.
In all of this, what was expected to become a reality for all of Europe after a victorious conclusion of the war, was the establishment of a race-based hierarchical national-socialist society in Europe. In this the German population would play a special role. Because the forced employment of millions of foreign workers and, in the later phase of the war also of concentration camp inmates, did not occur in isolated camps beyond the observation limits of German people, but literally on their own doorsteps. That the national-socialist Ausländereinsatz in reality can be considered a success for the rulers, is above all a result of the fact that a considerable portion of Germans accepted their expected role. To be sure only few had anything to do with the mistreatment of forced laborers but equally few took on their cause. For most the foreigners were simply there and part of every day life during war such as food ration cards or air raid shelters and the discrimination of Russians and Poles was as much a given as their own privileged position. It was precisely this which made it possible for racism to function, namely that it became a daily habit, something of everyday life, without the necessity for any one individual to participate in some form of discrimination or oppression.
Most of the foreign forced laborers who had been classified as "displaced persons" by the end of the war, returned immediately to their own countries. For the civilian forced laborers and prisoners of war from the Soviet Union who were forcibly repatriated, the suffering was not at an end after May 1945. After their repatriation they were collectively suspected of collaboration by the Stalinist authorities, experienced fierce repression and not few of them were once again locked up in "Gulag" camps.
By, Fast Larry Guninger, data presented was taken from the internet and I do not present it as accurate, it is just internet opinions, seek your own historical conclusions or your own history books to learn the truth. This is for amusement only to tell of another time a half century ago.
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The work and living conditions of concentration camp inmates differed considerably from firm to firm and depended on the nature of the operation, the individual position in the race-hierarchy of the SS and, not least, the attitude of company management such as the camp commander, guard, foreman and supervisor. Above all, Jewish prisoners who were separated into special groups, suffered of exceptionally bad conditions. Overall one can safely assume that those who were employed in armament production companies had more chances of survival than prisoners who were deployed in large-scale building projects operated by SS-owned enterprises, particularly in underground plant transfer as well as in the building of caverns and tunnels to underground plants. With the building projects and the so-called Höhlenprojekt, time was of the greatest essence and conditions for the prisoners correspondingly inhumane. The completely insufficient nourishment, the unhealthy accommodations in the caverns, the murderous pace of work and above all the never ending influx of new prisoners in the often overcrowded camps intensified accordingly. As in the concentration camps themselves, by the end of 1944 a virtual hell existed in the building project camps with death rates of such proportions that the survival time for the average prisoner was not more than a few months. A person's human value was measured by what his physical condition could deliver for a few weeks. Under these conditions labor and the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of people were synonymous.
Looking at the historical significance of the Ausländer-Einsatz in its totality, it becomes clear that the German war economy depended on forced labor exclusively from the beginning of 1942 at the latest. Without forced laborers it would not have been possible to achieve the required production levels in agriculture since 1940 and not since the end of 1941 for the armament industry. Only through the Ausländer-Einsatz was it possible to maintain the food situation for the German population until the end of 1944 at the highest level of all European powers involved in the war. Not least however did the forced laborers contribute to the thrust in gigantic growth and modernization which the German economy experienced during the years of the war and armament boom which represented one of the foundations of the so rapidly upward development after 1948.
At the same time the treatment of forced laborers was not only determined by economic factors but throughout also by philosophical ones. The nature and manner of treatment was based on these; the more the Reich's military situation improved, the more severe the discriminating regulations which governed treatment according to race-related guidelines. Only to the extend that an increase in productivity was called for, such as under the pressure for military achievements, did improvements come about.
In all of this, what was expected to become a reality for all of Europe after a victorious conclusion of the war, was the establishment of a race-based hierarchical national-socialist society in Europe. In this the German population would play a special role. Because the forced employment of millions of foreign workers and, in the later phase of the war also of concentration camp inmates, did not occur in isolated camps beyond the observation limits of German people, but literally on their own doorsteps. That the national-socialist Ausländereinsatz in reality can be considered a success for the rulers, is above all a result of the fact that a considerable portion of Germans accepted their expected role. To be sure only few had anything to do with the mistreatment of forced laborers but equally few took on their cause. For most the foreigners were simply there and part of every day life during war such as food ration cards or air raid shelters and the discrimination of Russians and Poles was as much a given as their own privileged position. It was precisely this which made it possible for racism to function, namely that it became a daily habit, something of everyday life, without the necessity for any one individual to participate in some form of discrimination or oppression.
Most of the foreign forced laborers who had been classified as "displaced persons" by the end of the war, returned immediately to their own countries. For the civilian forced laborers and prisoners of war from the Soviet Union who were forcibly repatriated, the suffering was not at an end after May 1945. After their repatriation they were collectively suspected of collaboration by the Stalinist authorities, experienced fierce repression and not few of them were once again locked up in "Gulag" camps.
By, Fast Larry Guninger, data presented was taken from the internet and I do not present it as accurate, it is just internet opinions, seek your own historical conclusions or your own history books to learn the truth. This is for amusement only to tell of another time a half century ago.
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